Fundamental Physics for Probing and Imaging - Wade Allison

Fundamental Physics for Probing and Imaging

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
348 Seiten
2006
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-920388-8 (ISBN)
155,85 inkl. MwSt
This unique textbook explains the fundamental physics that makes it possible to see inside things around us. Written for professional physicists and students, it follows applications in medicine and elsewhere. It puts physics in a cultural context, addresses matters of fear and safety, and reaches some significant conclusions.
Physics has reduced fear and increased safety for society, largely by extending the power to see. The methods used are magnetic resonance, ionising radiation and sound, with their extensions. This textbook expounds the fundamental physics of these. It follows how they are applied by modern technology to "seeing" in clinical medicine including therapy and in other spheres of human activity such as archaeology, geophysics, security and navigation. By taking a broad view over the whole field, the book encourages comparisons, underlines the importance of public education and reaches fresh conclusions of some political importance concerning safety. This textbook has developed from a course given to third year students at Oxford and is written so that it can be used coherently as a basis for shorter courses by omitting certain chapters.

Professor Wade Allison Physics Department and Keble College University of Oxford Oxford OX1 3PG Wade Allison is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow of Keble College. His own field is Particle Physics to which he has made significant contributions to experiments on Quarks and Neutrinos and to the theory and application of the energy loss of relativistic charged particles in matter to the design and construction of particle detectors. He has lectured extensively on Electromagnetism and on Nuclear Structure Physics. A few years ago with Louis Lyons he initiated a course entitled ``Applications of Nuclear Physics'' from which grew the particular course that he currently lectures concerned with Medical and Environmental Physics. A growing interest in this course and an absence of suitable texts encouraged him to write this book.

1. Physics for security ; 2. Magnetism and magnetic resonance ; 3. Interactions of ionising radiation ; 4. Mechanical waves and properties of matter ; 5. Information and data analysis ; 6. Analysis and damage by irradiation ; 7. Imaging with magnetic resonance ; 8. Medical imaging and therapy with ionising radiation ; 9. Ultrasound for imaging and therapy ; 10. Forward look and conclusions ; Appendices: Conventions, nomenclature and units. Glossary of terms and abbreviations. Hints and answers to selected questions.

Zusatzinfo 139 line drawings + 32 halftones
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 192 x 253 mm
Gewicht 951 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Radiologie / Bildgebende Verfahren
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Angewandte Physik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
ISBN-10 0-19-920388-1 / 0199203881
ISBN-13 978-0-19-920388-8 / 9780199203888
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich