I’m cheap and I’m proud of it; I love free stuff.
Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology isn’t free.
Russ Hobbie and I appreciate our readers’ willingness to spend their money to purchase our book. Thank you! But what if you want more? What if—heaven forbid—you find our book is not totally clear, complete, or comprehensive? In
IPMB we cite many references at the end of each chapter, so you have many sources of additional information. But often these sources cost money or may be difficult to obtain. Is there anywhere you can go
online for
free to augment
IPMB?
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A screenshot of the wikibook
Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine. |
One option is the wikibook
Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine. This book covers much of the same material as in the last half of
IPMB. It analyzes in depth
nuclear medicine (our Chapter 17), but it also covers the interaction of
radiation with tissue (our Chapter 15),
Fourier methods and
tomography (our Chapters 11 and 12), detectors and x-ray imaging systems (our Chapter 16),
ultrasound (our Chapter 13), and even a little
magnetic resonance imaging (our Chapter 18).
Some of my favorite parts of the wikibook are not covered in
IPMB:
What are the advantages of
IPMB? For one thing,
IPMB has a large collection of homework problems, more extensive than in
Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine. Also, I think our book has a better focus on using mathematical modeling to illustrate medical and biological physics concepts. Moreover, the entire first half of
IPMB—about biomechanics, biothermodynamics, diffusion, bioelectricity, biomagnetism, and feedback—is absent from
Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine. Finally, and most importantly,
Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine doesn’t have a
blog with weekly updates.
If you are looking for a free, easily accessible online textbook to use as a supplement (please, not a replacement!) for
Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology, consider
Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine. It’s worth every penny.
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