Updated May. 27 2004.
 

Kaj-Åge Henneberg, Ph.D., Associate professor
Biomedical Engineering Group
Ørsted*DTU
Technical University of Denmark
2800 Lyngby, Denmark

Tel. (45) 4525 3905
Fax (45) 4588 0117
e-mail: kah@oersted.dtu.dk
Office: 220 Bldg. 349

Education and Employment:

  • M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, 1985.
  • Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, North Carolina, USA, 1991.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut de génie biomédical, Université de Montréal, 1991-1994.
  • Assistant professor, Institut de génie biomédical, Université de Montréal, 1994-1997.

 

 

Teaching:

31520 Cardiopulmonary biomechanics (2005 - )

31530 Electrophysiology (2004 - )

01032 Signals and Linear Systems (1999 - 2004)

31650 Biomedical Engineering (no longer offered)

31651 Advanced Topics in Biomedical Engineering (no longer offered) 

31652 Modelling of physiological systems (no longer offered) 

31653 Project Course in biomedical engineering (no longer offered)

49419 Bioelectromagnetism (no longer offered)

49164 Basic Signal analysis (no longer offered)

 

Student projects:


 

Midt term projects (in Danish)

Exam projects


 

Research interests:

  • Electrophysiology of skeletal muscle fibers
    • Active and passive transport of ions through sarcolemmal, transverse tubular, and sarcoplasmic reticular membranes.
    • Diffusion of ions in cellular compartments
    • Propagation of sarcolemmal and tubular action potentials
    • Modeling and simulation
  • Electrical interaction between skeletal muscle fibers
    • Load effects of passive fibers on active fibers
    • Volume conductor properties in skeletal muscle
    • Fiber-to-fiber excitation (ephaptic transmission)
  • Single fiber electromyography
    • Relationships between extracellular single fiber potential waveforms and morphological and electrical properties
    • Fibrillation potentials
    • Complex Repetitive Discharges
  • Bioelectric potential recordings
    • Biopotential amplifiers
    • Modelling of electrode sensitivity functions in 3-D space
    • Electrode perturbation of bioelectric fields

Broader description of research interests

Introduction to muscle action potential propagation

Publications