Friday, March 25, 2016

Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine

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I’m cheap and I’m proud of it; I love free stuff. Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology isn’t free. Russ Hobbie and I appreciate o...
Friday, March 18, 2016

Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient

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When Russ Hobbie and I discuss transcranial magnetic stimulation in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , we write that “because...
Friday, March 11, 2016

Mass Attenuation Coefficient and Areal Density

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I don’t like the mass attenuation coefficient ; it bugs me and it has weird units. Yet researchers studying the attenuation of x-rays in ma...
Friday, March 4, 2016

Welcome Home Scott Kelly

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Scott Kelly, when he returned to earth after a year on the space station. This week astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after near...
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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...