Friday, May 30, 2008

Peter Basser wins ISMRM Gold Medal for Diffusion Tensor Imaging

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Earlier this month, at the 16th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) ...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Should We Have a Molybdenum-99 Source in the United States?

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In the December 14, 2007 entry to this blog, I discussed how the shutdown of a nuclear reactor at Chalk River , Ontario caused a shortage o...
Friday, May 16, 2008

A Firm Foundation For Aspiring Biophysicists

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In January 1989, John Wikswo of Vanderbilt University wrote a review in Physics Today (Volume 42, Pages 75–76) about the 2nd edition of I...
Friday, May 9, 2008

See Russ Hobbie on YouTube!

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In Chapter 15 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the interaction of radiation ...
Friday, May 2, 2008

The Hodgkin and Huxley Model

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In the 1940s and 50s, Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley discovered the ionic basis for nerve conduction, work that resulted in their sharing ...
Friday, April 25, 2008

AAPM Celebrates Its Golden Anniversary

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The quotes below are taken from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Golden Anniversary website . Many of the greatest inve...
Friday, April 18, 2008

Scholarpedia

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Scholarpedia: The Bidomain Model. Anyone who teaches college students or has teenage children knows that the first place they go to for ...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Even More on "Medical Physics: the Perfect Intermediate Level Physics Class"

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In 2001, Nelson Christensen of Carleton Colleg e published an article in the European Journal of Physics (Volume 22, Pages 421–427) titled...
Friday, April 4, 2008

Medical Physcis in the News

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Teachers and students using the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology might want a simple, enjoyable way to learn ab...
Friday, March 28, 2008

If You Can Solve Only One Differential Equation...

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If you can solve only one differential equation , let it be   dy / dt = k y .  This equation states that the rate of increase of a qua...