Applications of Modern Physics in Medicine / / Milton W. Cole, Kevork Spartalian, Mark Strikman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Strikman, Mark,; Cole, Milton W.,; Spartalian, Kevork,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 101 line illus. 4 tables.

The connections between modern physics and medical technologyMany remarkable medical technologies, diagnostic tools, and treatment methods have emerged as a result of modern physics discoveries in the last century—including X-rays, radiation treatment, laser surgery, high-resolution ultrasound scans...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE AND GUIDE TO USING THIS BOOK
• TECHNICAL ABBREVIATIONS
• TIMELINE OF SEMINAL DISCOVERIES IN MODERN PHYSICS
• TIMELINE OF DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS IN MODERN MEDICAL PHYSICS
• CHAPTER 1 Introduction
• CHAPTER 2 When You Visit Your Doctor: The Physics of the “Vital Signs”
• CHAPTER 3 Particles, Waves, and the Laws that Govern Them
• CHAPTER 4 Photon and Charged-Particle Interactions with a Medium
• CHAPTER 5 Interactions of Radiation with Living Tissue
• CHAPTER 6 Diagnostic Applications I Photons and Radionuclides
• CHAPTER 7 Diagnostic Applications II MRI and Ultrasound
• CHAPTER 8 Applications in Treatment
• APPENDIX A Constants, Powers of 10, and Conversions Mentioned in the Text
• APPENDIX B Mortality Modeling
• APPENDIX C Evaluation of the Sound Field from One Transducer
• NOTES
• INDEX