Medical Physics

Terminology, modeling and measurement. Forces on and in the body. Physics of the skeleton. Heat and cold in medicine. Energy, work and power of the body. Pressure. The physics of the lungs and breathing. Physics of the cardiovascular system. Electricity within the body. Cardiovascular instrumentation. Applications of electricity and magnetism in medicine. Soud in medicine. Physics of the ear and hearing. Light in medicine. Physics of eyes and vision. Physics of diagnostic x-rays. Physics of nuclear medicine (radioisotopes in medicine). Physics of radioation therapy. Radiation protection in medicine. Computers in medicine. Appendix: Exponentials and logarithms. Units. Standard man data general bibliography. Solutions.