Friday, August 28, 2009

Resource Letter MPRT-1: Medical Physics in Radiation Therapy

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When Russ Hobbie and I were preparing the 4 th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , we tried to update our book with...
Friday, August 21, 2009

The ECG Dance

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In Chapter 7 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I describe the electrocardiogram . I alw...
Friday, August 14, 2009

The Bell Curve

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I was browsing through the 4 th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology the other day (I do this sometimes; don’t ask why...
Friday, August 7, 2009

Technetium Shortage....Again

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Readers of this blog (are there any?) may recall two earlier entries on December 14, 2007 and the May 23, 2008 , when I discussed a shortag...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Roberts Prize

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One journal that readers of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology may enjoy is Physics in Medicine and Biology ....
Friday, July 24, 2009

Two-Dimensional Image Reconstruction

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In Section 12.4 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss Two-Dimensional Image Recon...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Random Walks in Biology

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Random Walks in Biology , by Howard Berg. In Chapter 4 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbi...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Buoyancy

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Air and Water, by Mark Denny. In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I added a new sect...
Friday, July 3, 2009

Sync

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Sync , By Steven Strogatz. In the October 17, 2008 entry to this blog, I discussed Steven Strogatz ’s textbook Nonlinear Dynamics and C...
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...