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Medical Instrumentation

Medical instrumentation is the application of electronics and measurement techniques to develop devices used in diagnosis and treatment of disease. Computers are an important and increasingly essential part of medical instrumentation, from the microprocessor in a single-purpose instrument to the microcomputer needed to process the large amount of information in a medical imaging system.

Examples of medical instrumentation include: heart monitors, microelectrodes, defibrillators and glucose monitoring machines.