The Oslo Bioimpedance Group, which is a research group at the Department of Physics, UiO and at Oslo University Hospital, are involved in a number of projects where these kind of measurements are utilized. Examples are development of non-invasive blood glucose measurements, cell-based implants for Parkinson’s disease, needle positioning, and organ-on-chip systems.
The student will be developing an instrument for bioimpedance measurements, either as a stand-alone, battery operated instrument or based on a platform like the Cypress PSOC, Arduino, Red Pitaya or similar. The work may include design of an entire instrument on a printed circuit board or just an analog front-end and firmware programming in C. It may also include programming a computer application in LabVIEW or Python. Furthermore, the student will perform measurements with the system on the tissue of interest and investigate how the measured data correlate with the different physiological conditions of the tissue.
The student will work in a team and preferably in close collaboration with a phd student. There are several possible supervisors, both at the physics department and at the hospital.