PHYSICS FOR STUDENTS OF MEDICINE
PART I PHYSICS OF THE BODY 1 BREATHING AND METABOLISM OVERVIEW 11 BREATHING 12 HUMAN ELEVATION LIMITS 13 OXYGEN TRANSFER IN THE BRAIN 14 PHOTOSYNTHESIS 15 ERYTHROCYTES: OXYGEN TRANSPORT IN THE BODY 16 NETWORK THEORY OF THE HUMAN BREATHING APPARATUS 17 TRANSPORT PHENOMENA AT THE CELL MEMBRANE 18 DIELECTRICMEASUREMENT OF EXOCYTOSIS PROCESSES 19 DIFFUSION AND SCALE QUALITIES 2 BIOMECHANICS 21 ACHILLES TENDON 22 BONE STRUCTURES OF THE ULNA AND RADIUS 23 SKI BINDINGS 24 ELASTICITY OF THE VERTEBRAE 25 LIFTING A PATIENT 26 ANIMAL PROPORTIONS 27 BONES OF UNIFORM STRENGTH 28 LIFTING WEIGHTS 3 FLUID DYNAMICS OF THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM 31 FROM THE AORTA TO THE CAPILLARIES 32 THE BLOOD AS A POWER FLUID 33 BRANCHING 34 BYPASS 35 HEMORHEOMETRY USING A ROTATING SPHERE VISCOMETER 36 FLOW COEFFICIENTS 37 NARROWING OF THE AORTA 38 STEPWISE NARROWING OF THE AORTA 39 BLOOD PRESSURE IN THE AORTA 310 PULSATILE BLOOD FLOW66311 CARDIAC OUTPUT 312 MITRAL VALVE OPENING SURFACE 313 DIALYSIS 4 THE SENSES 41 INFORMATION PROCESSING 42 GLASSES 43 GEOMETRY OF GLASSES LENSES 44 OPTICAL ILLUSIONS 45 RETINA IMPLANTATION 46 THRESHOLD OF VISION OF THE HUMAN EYE 47 VISUAL ANGLE AND RESOLUTION 48 THE APHAKIC EYE 49 THRESHOLD OF HEARING, AND THERMAL MOTION IN COMPARISON 410 SOUND PROPAGATION 411 LOUDSPEAKERS 412 THRESHOLD OF HEARING 413 SOUND INTERFERENCE WITH POINT SOURCES 414 ECHOLOCATION 415 IMPEDANCE MATCHING 416 ACOUSTIC PAIN THRESHOLD 5 ELECTRIC CURRENTS, FIELDS, AND POTENTIAL 51 NERVE CONDUCTION IN THE GIANT AXONS OF SQUID 52 NERVE STIMULATION 53 ELECTRICAL MODEL OF A CELL MEMBRANE 54 MEASUREMENT OF CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIALS 55 EKG AND CARDIAC DIPOLE 56 ELECTRIC SHOCK 6 HEAT 61 SKIWEAR 62 HEAT LOSS PART II THE PHYSICS OF DIAGNOSTICS AND THERAPY 7 X-RAY DIAGNOSTICS AND COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY 71 BOUGUER–LAMBERT LAW11672 X-RAY TUBES 73 SPECTRUM OF AN X-RAY TUBE 74 INTENSITY ATTENUATION 75 CONTRAST 76 SCATTERED RADIATION 77 QUANTUM NOISE OF AN X-RAY IMAGE INTENSIFIER 78 FOURIER RECONSTRUCTION OF AN IMAGE 79 RADON TRANSFORM OF A CIRCULAR OBJECT 710 BEAM HARDENING AND PARTIAL VOLUME ARTIFACTS IN CT 711 MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION OF A CT SCANNER 8 ULTRASOUND 81 DOPPLER ULTRASOUND 82 IMPEDANCE MATCHING FOR SOUND WAVES 83 BATS 84 ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER ARRAY 85 MATERIAL OF AN ULTRASONIC LENS 86 MEASUREMENT OF THE LENS OF THE EYE USING ULTRASONIC PULSE-ECHO TECHNIQUE 87 ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS 9 NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 91 ZEEMAN EFFECT AND NUCLEAR SPIN RESONANCE 92 MAGNETIZATION AND ITS RELAXATION 93 NMR PULSES AND THE ROTATING COORDINATE SYSTEM 94 FAT SIGNAL SUPPRESSION THROUGH INVERSION RECOVERY 95 GRADIENT ECHO 96 CONTRAST IN MRI IMAGING 97 BOLD 98 FOV AND RESOLUTION 99 SLICE SELECTION 910 LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION TIME 911 FREQUENCY AND PHASE ENCODING 912 GRADIENT STRENGTH AND FIELD OF VIEW (FOV) 913 MUSCLE STIMULATION USING PULSED GRADIENTS 914 MULTISLICE TECHNIQUE IN SPIN-ECHO PROCEDURE 915 TURBO SPIN-ECHO SEQUENCES 916 RADIATION PROTECTION INMRI (HF ABSORPTION) 10 NUCLEAR DIAGNOSTICS AND POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY 101 DECAY REACTION 102 AGE OF A MUMMY 103 IODINE 104 PHOTOMULTIPLIER 105 RADIONUCLIDE GENERATOR 106 POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY 11 RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES 111 DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM 112 TRANSFER FUNCTION 113 FILTERED BACK PROJECTION 12 RADIATION MEDICINE AND PROTECTION 121 INTERACTIONS OF A HIGH-ENERGY PRIMARY PHOTON 122 PAIR PRODUCTION IN RADIATION THERAPY 123 COMPTON SCATTERING 124 RADIATION DAMAGE FROM POTASSIUM 125 LETHAL ENERGY DOSE 126 FATAL DOSE EQUIVALENTS 127 DOSE BURDEN FROM MILK CONSUMPTION 13 LASER THERAPY 131 LASERS IN OPHTHALMOLOGY 132 OPTICAL SIZING OF BACTERIA 133 SMALL PARTICLES IN OPTICAL TWEEZERS