Friday, June 26, 2009

Physics Meets Biology

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Readers of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology may find a news feature by Jonathan Knight published in the S...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Resource Letter PFBi-1: Physical Frontiers in Biology

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Eugenie Mielczarek of George Mason University published “ Resource Letter PFBi-1: Physical Frontiers in Biology ” in the American Journal ...
Friday, June 12, 2009

The Magnetic Field of a Single Axon

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When I was in graduate school, working in John Wikswo ’s lab at Vanderbilt University , I calculated and measured the magnetic field of a si...
Friday, June 5, 2009

Ichiji Tasaki (1910-2009)

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Ichiji Tasaki (1910–2009) died January 4 in Bethesda, Maryland. Tasaki was known for his discovery in 1939 of saltatory conduction of acti...
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 ...