4th Edition , Springer Science+Business Media, New York, 2007,
Pages: 640
This book is the result of authors having taught such a course since 1973. It is intended to serve as a text for an intermediate course taught in a physics department and taken by a variety of majors.
Chapter 1 reviews mechanics. Translational and rotational equilibrium are introduced, with the forces in the heel and hip joint as clinical examples. Stress and strain, hydrostatics, incompressible viscous flow, and the Poiseuille–Beoulli equation are discussed, with examples
from the circulatory system.
Chapter 2 is essential to nearly every other chapter in the book. It discusses exponential growth and decay and gives examples from pharmacology and physiology (including clearance).
Chapter 3 is a condensed treatment of statistical physics: average quantities, probability, thermal equilibrium, entropy, and the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
Chapter 4 treats diffusion and transport of solute in an infinite medium. Fick’s first and second laws of diffusion are developed. Steady-state solutions in one, two and three dimensions are described. An important model is a spherical cell with pores providing transport through the cell membrane.
Chapter 5 discusses transport of fluid and neutral solutes through a membrane.
After reviewing the electric field, electric potential, and circuits, Chapter 6 describes the electrochemical changes that cause an impulse to travel along a nerve axon or along a muscle fiber before contraction.
Chapter 7 shows how an electric potential is generated in the medium surrounding a nerve or muscle cell. This leads to the current dipole model for the electrocardiogram.
Chapter 8 shows how the currents in a conducting nerve or muscle cell generate a magnetic field, leading to the magnetocardiogram and the magnetoencephalogram.
Chapter 9 covers a number of topics at the cellular and membrane level.
Chapter 10 describes feedback systems in the body. It tarts with the regulation of breathing rate to stabilize the carbon dioxide level in the blood, moves to linear feedback systems with one and two time constants, and then to nonlinear models.
Chapter 11 shows how the method of least squares underlies several important techniques for analyzing data.
Armed with the tools of the previous chapter, we tu to images in Chapter
12. Images are analyzed from the standpoint of linear systems and convolution.
Chapter 13 is new in the Fourth Edition. It discusses acoustics, hearing, and medical ultrasound.
Chapter 14 discusses the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The scattering and absorption cross sections are introduced and are used here and in the next three chapters.
Chapter 15, like Chapter 3, has few biological examples but sets the stage for later work. It describes how photons and ionizing charged particles such as electrons lose energy in traversing matter.
Chapter 16 describes the use of x rays for medical diagnosis and treatment. It moves from production to detection, to the diagnostic radiograph. We discuss image quality and noise, followed by angiography, mammography, fluoroscopy, and computed tomography. After briefly reviewing radiobiology, we discuss therapy and dose measurement. The chapter closes with a section on the risks from radiation.
Chapter 17 introduces nuclear physics and nuclear medicine. The different kinds of radioactive decay are described.
Chapter 18 develops the physics of magnetic resonance imaging.
This book is the result of authors having taught such a course since 1973. It is intended to serve as a text for an intermediate course taught in a physics department and taken by a variety of majors.
Chapter 1 reviews mechanics. Translational and rotational equilibrium are introduced, with the forces in the heel and hip joint as clinical examples. Stress and strain, hydrostatics, incompressible viscous flow, and the Poiseuille–Beoulli equation are discussed, with examples
from the circulatory system.
Chapter 2 is essential to nearly every other chapter in the book. It discusses exponential growth and decay and gives examples from pharmacology and physiology (including clearance).
Chapter 3 is a condensed treatment of statistical physics: average quantities, probability, thermal equilibrium, entropy, and the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
Chapter 4 treats diffusion and transport of solute in an infinite medium. Fick’s first and second laws of diffusion are developed. Steady-state solutions in one, two and three dimensions are described. An important model is a spherical cell with pores providing transport through the cell membrane.
Chapter 5 discusses transport of fluid and neutral solutes through a membrane.
After reviewing the electric field, electric potential, and circuits, Chapter 6 describes the electrochemical changes that cause an impulse to travel along a nerve axon or along a muscle fiber before contraction.
Chapter 7 shows how an electric potential is generated in the medium surrounding a nerve or muscle cell. This leads to the current dipole model for the electrocardiogram.
Chapter 8 shows how the currents in a conducting nerve or muscle cell generate a magnetic field, leading to the magnetocardiogram and the magnetoencephalogram.
Chapter 9 covers a number of topics at the cellular and membrane level.
Chapter 10 describes feedback systems in the body. It tarts with the regulation of breathing rate to stabilize the carbon dioxide level in the blood, moves to linear feedback systems with one and two time constants, and then to nonlinear models.
Chapter 11 shows how the method of least squares underlies several important techniques for analyzing data.
Armed with the tools of the previous chapter, we tu to images in Chapter
12. Images are analyzed from the standpoint of linear systems and convolution.
Chapter 13 is new in the Fourth Edition. It discusses acoustics, hearing, and medical ultrasound.
Chapter 14 discusses the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The scattering and absorption cross sections are introduced and are used here and in the next three chapters.
Chapter 15, like Chapter 3, has few biological examples but sets the stage for later work. It describes how photons and ionizing charged particles such as electrons lose energy in traversing matter.
Chapter 16 describes the use of x rays for medical diagnosis and treatment. It moves from production to detection, to the diagnostic radiograph. We discuss image quality and noise, followed by angiography, mammography, fluoroscopy, and computed tomography. After briefly reviewing radiobiology, we discuss therapy and dose measurement. The chapter closes with a section on the risks from radiation.
Chapter 17 introduces nuclear physics and nuclear medicine. The different kinds of radioactive decay are described.
Chapter 18 develops the physics of magnetic resonance imaging.