Friday, February 26, 2016

Top 10 Isotopes

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Everyone loves “top ten” lists. So, I have prepared a list of the top ten isotopes mentioned in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biolo...
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Friday, February 19, 2016

The Sievert Integral

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In Section 17.11 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss Brachytherapy . Brachytherapy ( brachy me...
Friday, February 12, 2016

Perspectives on Working at the Physics-Biology Interface

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Physical Biology . A few weeks ago, I wrote that “I’ve always been fascinated by physicists who move into biology, and I collect storie...
Friday, February 5, 2016

The Rest of the Story

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Alan was born 102 years ago today in Banbury , England . He was descended from a long line of Quakers . Quakers are often pacifists, so Alan...
Friday, January 29, 2016

The Number and Distribution of Capillaries in Muscles with Calculations of the Oxygen Pressure Head Necessary for Supplying the Tissue

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Oxygen diffuses from capillaries into tissue where it is used for metabolism. Russ Hobbie and I discuss diffusion in Chapter 4 of Interme...
Friday, January 22, 2016

A Brief History of Human Functional Brain Mapping

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In Chapter 18 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I describe functional magnetic resonance imaging . The t...
Friday, January 15, 2016

You Can Hear About a Nickel’s Worth of Difference

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In Chapter 13 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I describe a logarithmic scale for sound intensity : the ...
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Friday, January 8, 2016

Biomagnetism Therapy: Pseudoscientific Twaddle

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Voodoo Science , by Robert Park. Ever since Robert Park —author of Voodoo Science and the weekly column What’s New —suffered a stroke ...
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Friday, January 1, 2016

Charles Bean, Biological Physicist

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I’ve always been fascinated by physicists who move into biology, and I collect stories about scientists who have made this transition succes...
Friday, December 25, 2015

The Royal Institution's 2015 Christmas Lecutres: How to Survive in Space

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Michael Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution. 190 years ago at the Royal Institution in London , Michael Faraday presented the ...