Friday, May 29, 2009

Deep Brain Stimulation

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In Chapter 7 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I describe electrical stimulation (Secti...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Using Logarithmic Transformations When Fitting Allometric Data

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In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss least squares fitting . A homework problem...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Current Injection into a Two-Dimensional Anisotropic Bidomain

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Twenty years ago this month, Nestor Sepulveda , John Wikswo , and I published a calculation of the transmembrane potential induced when a p...
Friday, May 8, 2009

Color Vision

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Color vision is one topic from biological physics that Russ Hobbie and I do not discuss in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Med...
Friday, May 1, 2009

Paul Lauterbur

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This week we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the birth of Paul Lauterbur (May 6, 1929–March 27, 2007), co-winner with Peter Mansfield of ...
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...