Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, December 28, 2007

Top Ten Biological Physics Books

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Each year at this time, we are bombarded by top ten lists, such as “Top Ten News Stories of 2007” or “Top Ten Movies of the Year.” Russ Hob...
Friday, December 21, 2007

Should the Premed Requirements in Physics be Changed?

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Nearly 30 years ago, Abraham Liboff and Michael Chopp —both faculty members at Oakland University —published an article in the American Jou...
Friday, December 14, 2007

Technetium Shortage

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The shutdown of a nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ontario has caused a shortage of an isotope of technetium (Tc-99m) used for medical imagin...
Friday, December 7, 2007

Is Computed Tomography Safe?

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Drs. David Brenner and Eric Hall recently warned that the increased popularity of CT scans, particularly in children, can lead to an incre...
Friday, November 30, 2007

What Should Every Biological Physicist Know?

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Is there a common core of knowledge that every medical or biological physicist should know? Oakland University has a Medical Physics PhD p...
Friday, November 23, 2007

A "Citation Index" for Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

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Who does Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology cite most? I went through the index of our book and tallied the number of entries f...
Friday, November 16, 2007

Weight Control

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How do we add material to each edition without making Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology a lot larger? Answer: The web. We no ...
Friday, November 9, 2007

A Bridge Between Biologists and Physicists

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Peter Kahn reviewed the third edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology in the American Journal of Physics ( Volume 67, Pag...
Friday, November 2, 2007

Page Proofs

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This week is a major anniversary for the fourth edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . One year ago this Tuesday, the pa...
Friday, October 26, 2007

I Heartily Recommend This Book

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In the Jan/Feb 1999 issue of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine , Cynthia Paschal reviewed the third edition of Intermed...
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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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