XXVI Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering

Clinical Engineering and Health Technology Assessment.- Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Artificial Organs.- Bioengineering.- Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation.- Biomechanics and Rehabilitation.- Neural Engineering.- Biomedical signal and image processing.- Biomedical Robotics, Assistive Technology and Health Informatics.- Systems and Technologies for Therapy and Diagnosis.- Metrology, Standardization, Testing and Quality in Health.- Special Topics.

Rodrigo Costa-Felix has a graduation degree in Mechanical Engineering (1995), master's degree in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis in Psychoacoustic (1996) and doctor's degree in Biomedical Engineering (2005) with emphasis on Ultrasound Metrology. He is a researcher in Metrology and Quality working at Inmetro, acting as the head of the Ultrasound Laboratory since 2008. Rodrigo is a professor at the Postgraduate Program in Metrology and Quality (2009-present) and the Post-Graduate Program in Biotechnology (2013-present), both belonging to Inmetro. He is presently the Coordinator of Inmetro's Post-Graduate Program in Biotechnology. He has been a full member of the Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering (SBEB) since 2006, in which he served as Secretary (2006-2008), Treasurer (2009-2010), SBEB Board Member (2013-2014), Vice-President (2015-2016) and Secretary (2017-2018). He is a Member of the Brazilian Society of Metrology (SBM) since 2014, of which he worked a member of theFinancial Council (2014-2015) and currently he is Vice-President (2016-2018). He has been working on standardization since 1997, working on the elaboration of more than 35 national and 25 international technical standards. Rodrigo has authored or co-authored more than 50 papers in peer reviewed journals and 90 papers in conferences. He is also the inventor of three patents.
João C. Machado received his B. Sc. degree in electronic engineering, in 1976, from the Engineering School and his M. Sc. degree, in 1977, in biomedical engineering from COPPE, both from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. From 1979 to 1983 he was a Research Assistant in the Electrical Engineering Department at University of Washington, Seattle, USA, where he also received his Ph. D. degree. Since 1983 he joined the faculty of the Biomedical Engineering Program at COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, becoming a professor and responsible for the courses andresearch related to