From the contributions of graduate students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Third International Conference on Biomedical Engineering

Researchers and postgraduate students have participated in the Third International Conference on Biomedical Engineering at Damascus University with their research and scientific projects on the conference themes: biomechanics, medical radiology, medical imaging, applications of artificial intelligence in medicine and medical diagnosis, and control and robotics in the field of biomedical engineering and audiology.

The head of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Damascus University stated that the number of participating postgraduate students from the department was five, and their researches varied across the various themes of the conference, which are applied researches conducted in the department and its specialized laboratories, pointing out that the Department of Biomedical Engineering, since its establishment, has contributed to supporting the health sector and advancing scientific development in Syria since it is the only speciality that links engineering and medical specializations in order to provide solutions and inventions that serve the health sector.

Graduate student engineer Zubaida Sobh explained that she presented a lecture entitled “The effect of Charcot’s disease on the angle of the ankle joint”, during which she talked about the causes of this disease, its symptoms, treatment methods, and methods of diagnosis, and about the experimental procedure in the gait analysis laboratory on samples of patients and healthy people with the aim of obtaining the curve of the ankle joint angle. At the end of the lecture, she discussed the results and presented a summary of the research.

Doctoral student Engineer Boutros Al-Hallaq also participated in a scientific lecture about his thesis to obtain a doctoral degree (in progress) in biomedical engineering about the cardiac catheterization device and the effect of changing the angles of the x-ray tube and the protocol on increasing the radiation doses that the patient receives during coronary artery expansion operations, indicating the importance of these factors and how to deal with them.

Graduate student engineer Kholoud Suwaiqat pointed out that her research is distinguished by its reliance on local data, as the study included 440 patients of both sexes and with an average age of 50 years, because this disease has a peculiarity that depends on the structure of the body and lifestyle, so it was a first step to building a Syrian model through which bones fragility can be diagnosed.