Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, June 27, 2008

Physicist Playing Cards

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Physicist Playing Cards. Last Christmas, my daughter Katherine gave me a unique and fascinating present: Physicist Playing Cards. Each c...
Friday, June 20, 2008

The Electrocardiogram

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http://www.skillstat.com/ECG_sim_demo.html When I teach biological physics , we spend at least one class discussing the electrocardiogra...
Friday, June 13, 2008

http://medicalphysicsweb.org

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Readers of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology who are particularly interested in Medical Physics will find th...
Friday, June 6, 2008

The "Big Three" Partial Differential Equations of Physics

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Often a mathematical physics class will focus on the “big three” partial differential equations of physics: the diffusion equation , the wav...
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...
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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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