Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology, 4th Edition

by Russell K. Hobbie and Bradley J. Roth

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Table of Contents:  A Table of Contents for the 4th edition is available here: http://www.oakland.edu/~roth/TOC.pdf

 

Amazon.com: You can find more information about the book at the book's amazon.com webpage, including my "blog" about the book.

 

Hobbie Interview: See the American Physical Society, Division of Biological Physics December 2006 Newsletter for an interview with Russell Hobbie.

 

Solutions Manual:  The solutions manual (pdf, 3.2 MB) can be downloaded here.  You will need a password to read the file.  Instructors can contact the authors for it.

 

MacDose:  MacDose is a computer program designed to teach about the interaction of radiation with matter. It provides a two-dimensional simulation of the photoelectric effect, coherent scattering, Compton scattering, and pair production. It distinguishes between stochastic quantities, such as the energy transferred and the energy imparted, and average quantities such as the kerma and absorbed dose. It runs on any Macintosh with OS-9 or earlier, including Classic in OS-X. It used to be distributed by Medical Physics Publishing Company, but now it is freeware. An Apple Macintosh DiscCopy image is available here as a binhex file and includes MacDose, the Student Manual, and the Instructor's Guide.  There is also a 26  minute Quicktime movie that uses MacDose to demonstrate various concepts related to the attenuation and absorption of x rays. The Movie is a 40 MB file.

 

 

Errata:  A pdf file containing a list of known errors in the 4th edition (last revision: May 12, 2009).  Please let us know if you find other errors.

 

A new homework problem, as published in the December 26, 2008 entry of the book's blog:

Section 18.12

Problem 37 1/2  Suppose your median nerve, having a radius of 2 mm, carries a current density of 10 Amps per square meter over a length of 10 millimeters. (Assume all the axons are simultaneously active, so the current density is uniformly distributed throughout the nerve).

a) You are having a magnetic resonance image taken, and the steady uniform magnetic field has a strength of 4 Tesla and is directed perpendicular to the nerve. Calculate the magnitude and direction of the magnetic force on the nerve.

b) Assume the nerve is held in position by an elastic force equal to the product of k and s, where k is the spring constant of 400 Newtons per meter and s is the distance the nerve is displaced from its equilibrium position. Calculate the displacement of the nerve experiencing the force found in part a.

c) Finally, assume that a magnetic field gradient of 36 milliTesla per meter is present, so that when the nerve moves the distance calculated in part b, it enters a region of different magnetic field strength. Calculate the change in magnetic field that the nerve experiences because of its motion. Calculate the change in resonance angular frequency (assuming you are imaging protons). If the gradient and current last for 15 milliseconds, what is the change in phase of the MRI signal?

Send an email to roth@oakland.edu to request a solution.

 

Supplemental Information from Previous editions of the textbook that was not included in the 4th edition:

1.  Systems of Many Particles: The Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution.  From Chapter 3 of the 3rd Edition.

2.  Optics.  Polarized light, absorption and emission of light, lifetimes and line widths, electron spin resonance.  From Chapter 10 of the 1st Edition.

3.  Transport Through Neutral Membranes. Solute flow with no reflection, and glomerular filtration in the kidney.  From Chapter 5 of the 3rd Edition.

 

Websites listed in the book:

Atomic energy levels (chapter 15): http://www.csrri.iit.edu/periodic-table.html

Stopping range of ions in matter (chapter 15): http://www.srim.org/

Mass attenuation coefficient data (chapter 15): http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Xcom/Text/XCOM.html

Fractional mass compositions (chapter 16): http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/XrayMassCoef/tab2.html

Nuclear physics data (chapter 17): http://www.doseinfo-radar.com/

Nuclear physics data (chapter 17): http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/mird/

Pedagogical program for whole-body Monte Carlo calculations (chapter 17): http://www.doseinfo-radar.com/

Nuclear decay schemes (chapter 17): http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/

Neutrino mass information (chapter 17): http://pdg.lbl.gov/