Friday, December 28, 2018

The Pitfalls of Using Handbooks and Formulae

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Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down , by J. E. Gordon. Last week I discussed James Gordon ’s book Structures: Or Why Things ...
Friday, December 21, 2018

Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

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Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down , by James Gordon. When I was in graduate school, I read a fascinating book by James Gord...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Computerized Transverse Axial Scanning (Tomography)

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“Computerized Transverse Axial Scanning (Tomography).” Section 16.8 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology discusses computed...
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Friday, December 7, 2018

Imaging and Velocimetry of the Human Retinal Circulation with Color Doppler Optical Coherence Tomography

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Page 394 of IPMB . Section 14.7 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology discuses optical coherence tomography (OCT). Russ H...
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Friday, November 30, 2018

Venkataranan Ramakrishna, Biological Physicist

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Failed physicist? I was reading the November issue of APS News (A publication of the American Physical Society ) when I noticed an arti...
Friday, November 23, 2018

Write Mind

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Write Mind , by Eric Maisel. Every Saturday morning my wife and I visit the Rochester Hills Public Library . I like to browse the stacks...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Mathematics is Biology’s Next Microscope, Only Better; Biology is Mathematics’ Next Physics, Only Better

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is full of equations. Equations are on almost every page, and often lots of them. Russ Hobbie...
Friday, November 9, 2018

Marie Curie and her X-ray Vehicles’ Contribution to World War I Battlefield Medicine

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Sunday is Veterans Day . This year the holiday is particularly significant because it marks the 100th anniversary of the armistice ending ...
Friday, November 2, 2018

Roderick MacKinnon's Nobel Lecture

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In Chapter 9 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I write Roderick MacKinnon and his colleagues determined...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Earl Bakken (1924-2018)

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Earl Bakken. From the Bakken Museum, via wikipedia. Earl Bakken , cofounder of the medical device company Medtronic , died Sunday at the...