Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, March 29, 2013

1932: A Watershed Year in Nuclear Physics

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I should have posted this article last year, to mark the 80th anniversary of the annus mirabilis of nuclear physics . Unfortunately, I didn...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Barouh Berkovits (1926-2012)

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When my March 2013 issue of the journal Heart Rhythm arrived this week, I found in it an obituary for Barouh Berkovits , who died last year...
Friday, March 15, 2013

The Technology of Medicine

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In Chapter 5 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the artificial kidney as an e...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Helium Shortage!

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A recent article in the New York Times discusses the looming shortage of helium . A global helium shortage has turned the second-most ab...
Friday, March 1, 2013

Magnetoacoustic Tomography with Magnetic Induction

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Magnetoacoustic tomography with magnetic induction is a new method to image the distribution of electrical conductivity in tissue. Bin He , ...
Friday, February 22, 2013

The Response of a Spherical Heart to a Uniform Electric Field

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In Chapter 7 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the bidomain model of cardiac...
Friday, February 15, 2013

The Joy of X

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The Joy of X , by Steven Strogatz. Steven Strogatz ’s latest book is The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, From One to Infinity . I have...
Friday, February 8, 2013

Photodynamic Therapy

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I am currently teaching Medical Physics (PHY 326) at Oakland University , and for our textbook I am using (surprise!) the 4th edition of Int...
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Friday, February 1, 2013

The Page 99 Test

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English editor Ford Madox Ford advised people who are debating if they should read a particular book to “open the book to page ninety-nine ...
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Friday, January 25, 2013

Aliasing

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In Chapter 11 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss aliasing . If a component [...
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I am an emeritus professor of physics at Oakland University, and coauthor of the textbook Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology. The purpose of this blog is specifically to support and promote my textbook, and in general to illustrate applications of physics to medicine and biology.
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