Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, May 27, 2016

An Analytical Example of Filtered Back Projection

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One of my hobbies is to find tomography problems that can be solved analytically. I know this is artificial—all tomography for medical imag...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Five Generations

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A five generation picture. When my first daughter Stephanie was born, we included her in this photo of five generations. From left to ri...
Friday, May 13, 2016

Trivial Pursuit IPMB

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Trivial Pursuit. Trivial Pursuit is a popular and fun board game invented in the 1980s. While playing it, you learn many obscure facts ...
Friday, May 6, 2016

Science Blogging

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Science Blogging: The Essential Guide , by Wilcox, Brookshire, and Goldman. After writing this blog for nine years, I decided it is ti...
Friday, April 29, 2016

The Four Equations of Old Quantum Theory

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Subtle is the Lord , by Abraham Pais. In ‘Subtle is the Lord…”: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein , Abraham Pais illustrates...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Chernobyl

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The Chernobyl nuclear reactor. The worst nuclear accident ever happened thirty years ago this week: Chernobyl . Below are excerpts from ...
Friday, April 15, 2016

The Eigenvalue Problem

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An image of fiber tracts in the brain using Diffusion Tensor Imaging. From: Wikipedia . In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biolo...
Friday, April 8, 2016

Darcy’s Law

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Table 4.3 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains five transport equations. Each has the form “ flux density equals a ...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Strat-O-Matic Baseball

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My Die-Hard Cub Fan Club membership card. Monday is opening day ! When I was young I was an avid baseball fan. I still enjoy the ga...
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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...
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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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