About us
The Biomedical Electronics Foundation aims at the improvement of education, research and valorization in the field of biomedical electronics.
Biomedical electronics is the discipline of electronic engineers, who, in close collaboration with doctors, hospitals, manufacturers and industry, work on the next generation of devices for medical diagnostics, monitoring and therapy. Examples of such devices are:
monitoring systems for adequate diagnosis, e.g., the readout of ECG, EEG or EMG;
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pacemakers and defibrillators for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias;
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cochlear implants to enable (renewed) hearing for the deaf;
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neurostimulators for the treatment of a broad range of brain related disorders, like tinnitus, Parkinson, OCD, Tourette's syndrom, manic depression, cluster headache, etc.;
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neurostimulators for the treatment of disorders of the central or peripheral nervous system, like chronic pain, phantom pain, etc.
Important medical breakthroughs in the 21st century are the results of improved medical devices and thereby better insight into the workings of the human body and better diagnosis and treatment methods. The Biomedical Electronics Foundation is a member of Braininnovations and contributes to the scientific research at, a.o., Delft University of Technology, Erasmus Medical Center, Leiden University Medical Center and University Hospital Antwerp.