Friday, May 29, 2015

Taylor's Series

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In Appendix D of the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I review Taylor’s Series . Our Figures ...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Progress Toward a Deployable SQUID-Based Ultra-Low Field MRI System for Anatomical Imaging

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When surfing the web, I like to visit medicalphysicsweb.org . This site, maintained by the Institute of Physics , always publishes interesti...
Friday, May 15, 2015

What My Dogs Forced Me To Learn About Thermal Energy Transfer

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I’m a dog lover, so I have to enjoy an American Journal of Physics paper that begins “For many years, I have competed and judged in America...
Friday, May 8, 2015

The blog is dead. Long live the blog!

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . All good things must come to an end. After nearly eight years of posting an entry to th...
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Friday, May 1, 2015

Churchill’s moral

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The Second World War , by Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill is one of my heroes. After completing my PhD dissertation, I rewarded m...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Figure 13.5

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In Chapter 13 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss imaging using ultrasound . On...
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Friday, April 17, 2015

Physical Models of Living Systems

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Physical Models of Living Systems , by Philip Nelson. Philip Nelson has a new textbook that came out earlier this year: Physical Mode...
Friday, April 10, 2015

The Steradian

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Angles are measured in radians , but solid angles are measured in steradians . Russ Hobbie and I discuss solid angles in Appendix A of the ...
Friday, April 3, 2015

On Writing Well

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Oakland University , where I work, has an ADVANCE grant from the National Science Foundation , with the goal of increasing the representati...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Projections and Back Projections

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Tomography is one of the most important contributions of mathematics to medicine. In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine a...