Friday, May 25, 2012

The Semiempirical Mass Formula

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When revising Chapter 17 about Nuclear Medicine for the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I we...
Friday, May 18, 2012

Spin Echo

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The spin-echo of nuclear magnetic resonance is one of those concepts that anyone interested in medical physics should know. Russ Hobbie ...
Friday, May 11, 2012

Stopping Power and the Bragg Peak

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Proton therapy is becoming a popular treatment for cancer. Russ Hobbie and I discuss proton therapy in Chapter 16 of the 4th edition of In...
Friday, May 4, 2012

The Optics of Life

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The Optics of Life: A Biologist's Guide to Light in Nature , by Sonke Johnsen. As I mentioned two weeks ago , I’ve been reading Th...
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Friday, April 27, 2012

Physics and Medicine

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Readers of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology already know how important physics is to medicine. Now, subscribers to the famed B...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Frequency versus Wavelength

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The Optics of Life: A Biologist's Guide to Light in Nature , by Sonke Johnsen. I am currently reading The Optics of Life: A Biolog...
Friday, April 13, 2012

Stirling’s Formula!

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Factorials are used in many branches of mathematics and physics, and particularly in statistical mechanics . One often needs the natural lo...
Friday, April 6, 2012

Stokes' Law

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Stokes’ law appears in Chapter 4 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . Russ Hobbie and I write For a New...
Friday, March 30, 2012

iBioMagazine

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I recently discovered iBioMagazine , which I highly recommend. The iBioMagazine website describes its goals. iBioMagazine offers a collect...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Saltatory Conduction

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Action potential propagation along a myelinated nerve axon is often said to occur by “ saltatory conduction .” The 4th edition of Interme...
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