Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, October 29, 2021

The 10-20 System

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In Chapter 7 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the 10-20 system of electrodes on the scalp used...
Friday, October 22, 2021

MRI Safety

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Will Morton , a staff writer for AuntMinnie.com , published an article about safety issues during magnetic resonance imaging . It begins A...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Photodynamic Therapy

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In Chapter 14 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss photodynamic therapy . Photodynamic therapy (...
Friday, October 8, 2021

Electroporation

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In Chapter 9 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I mention electroporation . Electrical burns, cardiac paci...
Friday, October 1, 2021

Albumin

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The structure of albumin . Created by Jawahar Swaminathan and MSD staff at the European Bioinformatics Institute, on Wikipedia. A physicis...
Friday, September 24, 2021

The Bystander Effect and a Supralinear Dose-Response Curve

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When discussing the biological effects of radiation in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I describe the bys...
Friday, September 17, 2021

Klein-Nishina Formula for Polarized Photons

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In Chapter 15 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss Compton Scattering . An incident photon scatter...
Friday, September 10, 2021

Is Shot Noise Also White Noise?

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In Chapters 9 and 11 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss shot noise . 9.8.1 Shot Noise The firs...
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Friday, September 3, 2021

The Unit of Vascular Resistance: A Naming Opportunity

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The metric system is based on three fundamental units: the kilogram (kg, mass), the meter (m, distance), and the second (s, time). Often...
Friday, August 27, 2021

Can Induced Electric Fields Explain Biological Effects of Power-Line Magnetic Fields?

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Sometimes proponents of pseudoscience embrace nonsense, but other times they propose plausible-sounding ideas that are wrong because the nu...
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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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