Friday, January 31, 2020

The Future of Low Dose Radiation Research in the United States

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In Section 16.12 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the risk of radiation. In recent posts I’ve ...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Takuo Aoyagi and the Discovery of Pulse Oximetry

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A pulse oximeter. Photograph by Rama, Wikimedia Commons, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr The pulse oximeter is among the most significant application...
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Friday, January 17, 2020

Leonardo Da Vinci, Biological Physicist

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Leonardo da Vinci , by Walter Isaacson. Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) is never mentioned in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Bi...
Friday, January 10, 2020

Significant Advances in Computed Tomography

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The journal Medical Physics recently published a virtual issue about “ Significant Advances in Computed Tomography .” It’s accessible to al...
Friday, January 3, 2020

The Isaac Winners

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Yesterday was the 100 th anniversary of Isaac Asimov ’s birth. Regular readers of this blog know that Asimov had a huge impact on my decisi...
Friday, December 27, 2019

The Magnetic Field of an Axon: Ampere versus Biot-Savart

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In Homework Problem 14 of Chapter 8 in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I ask the reader to calculate the ma...
Friday, December 20, 2019

This and That

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Most of my blog posts are about a single topic related to Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , but today’s post consists of a doz...
Friday, December 13, 2019

How Russ Hobbie Came to Write Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

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In the preface of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie writes Between 1971 and 1973 I audited all the courses medi...