Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

The Bragg peak is a key concept when studying the interaction of protons with tissue. In Chapter 16 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Phy...

The 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Paul Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield “for their discoveries concerning ma...

Primer of Biostatistics , by Stanton Glantz. Probability and statistics is an important topic in medicine. Russ Hobbie and I discuss ...

I have discussed the pedagogical virtues of point/counterpoint articles published by Medical Physics before in this blog (see, for instance...

I don’t have any grandchildren yet, but I am fortunate to have a wonderful “granddog.” This weekend, my wife and I are taking care of Auggie...

I have recently been reading the fascinating book On Size and Life , by Thomas McMahon and John Tyler Bonner (Scientific American Library,...

In 2006, just as Springer was about to publish the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , an interview with Russ Hob...

I know that there are very few people out there interested in reading a blog about physics applied to medicine and biology. But those few (t...

Two of my favorite homework problems in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology are Problems 39 and 40 in Chapter ...

Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century , by Bettyann Kevles. I recently finished reading Bettyann Kevles ’ excel...