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 fFrom x-rays to lasers to magnetic resonance imaging ,
developments in basic physics research have been transformed into medical
technologies in imaging, surgery, and therapy at an accelerating pace. In
doing its part, physics has joined with genetics and molecular biology to
define much of what is modern in modern medicine.
This course introduces important technologies and basic
principles relevant to physics for the health sciences
students. Readings in a text book for this course, the popular
scientific literature, and medical texts will treat both scientific basis
and societal implications of Sound physic of Hearing, and Ultrasound
imaging ,Optics physics of Vision, and Fiber Optics Endoscopy, Modern
Physics of X-ray, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance imaging, Laser,
Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy.
That so much of the technology discussed in this course was
the stuff of dreams just a few years ago, makes this course as fascinating
as it is practical, both for those in medicine as well as those in physics
who might one day discover that the project they are working on is basis
for the next great medical application.
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