Friday, April 24, 2009

Proton Therapy

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Section 16.11.3 in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology discusses proton therapy . Protons are also used to ...
Friday, April 17, 2009

The Diffusion Approximation to Photon Transport

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Chapter 14 in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains a section describing the diffusion approximation t...
Friday, April 10, 2009

We Should All Congratulate Professor Hobbie For This Excellent Text

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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, P...
Friday, April 3, 2009

Div, Grad, Curl, and All That

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Russ Hobbie and I assume that readers of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology know the basics of calculus (ou...
Friday, March 27, 2009

Sigma Xi

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Here at Oakland University , this Tuesday, March 31, is our annual Sigma Xi lecture (4 P.M. in 201 Dodge Hall of Engineering). Each year, w...
Friday, March 20, 2009

The West-Brown-Enquist Model for Allometric Scaling

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Chapter 2 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology ends with a section on “Food Consumption, Basal Metabolic Rat...
Friday, March 13, 2009

The Discovery of Technetium

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In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the biomedical properties of the element t...
Friday, March 6, 2009

NCRP Report No. 160

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In past entries to this blog, I have reported on a growing controversy over radiation exposure from medical procedures. On December 7, 2007 ...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Hello to the Medical Physics 2 Class at Ball State University

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Russ Hobbie and I would like to thank those instructors and students who use the 4th edition of  Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Bio...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Allan Cormack

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This Monday (February 23) will mark the 85th anniversary of the birth of Allan Cormack (1924–1998), who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physio...