Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, October 25, 2013

From Neuron to Brain

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From Neuron to Brain , by Stephen Kuffler and John Nicholls. In 1982, when I was accepted into graduate school at Vanderbilt University...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Osmosis and the Kidneys

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Physics of the Body , by Cameron, Skofronick, and Grant. One textbook that covers much of the same material as the 4th edition of Inter...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

How Well Does a Three-Sphere Model Predict Positions of Dipoles in a Realistically Shaped Head?

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When I worked at the National Institutes of Health , I collaborated with Susumu Sato, a neurophysiologist interested in electroencephalograp...
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Friday, October 4, 2013

Medical Physics Qualifying Exams

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We have a Medical Physics PhD program here at Oakland University , and this was the week we administered the oral qualifying exam to our cu...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

Hermann von Helmholtz, Biological Physicist

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Who was the greatest biological physicist ever? That’s a difficult question, but one candidate is the German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Musicophilia

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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain , by Oliver Sacks. Those who know me well are aware that I spend considerable time walking ...
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Friday, September 13, 2013

Plain Words

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Plain Words , by Sir Ernest Gowers. When I arrived at graduate school, the main goal given to me by my advisor John Wikswo was to writ...
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Friday, September 6, 2013

The Art of Electronics

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The Art of Electronics , by Horowitz and Hill. A biological physicist needs many skills, and an important one for experimentalists is e...
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Friday, August 30, 2013

The Ascent of Sap in Trees

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In Chapter 1 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I included a homework problem about movi...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Stealth Nanoparticles Boost Radiotherapy

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I hope, dear readers, that you all have been regularly browsing through http://medicalphysicsweb.org , the website from the Institute of Phy...
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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
I am an emeritus professor of physics at Oakland University, and coauthor of the textbook Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology. The purpose of this blog is specifically to support and promote my textbook, and in general to illustrate applications of physics to medicine and biology.
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