Fundamental Physics for Probing and Imaging

Wade Allison

334 pages, parution le 26/10/2006

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Résumé

A unique book that explains the fundamental physics behind modern probing and imaging.
Shows how physics can benefit society by reducing the fear in people's lives and raises significant questions about our attitude to safety.
A book for every physicist who has ever needed to answer the question: 'What is physics for?
Rises above individual specialised fields to give an overview of benefits that affect everyone's lives.
Provides a basis for university courses of general interest to final year undergraduate students.
Gives the guidance which enables a wider study of applications, for instance via the internet, to be understood in context.

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. 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.

Readership: Undergraduates and graduate students in physics. Professional physicists. Engineers, archaeologists, geologists, forensic physicists and medics with a strong background in physics. Those interested in physics and society and physics and public policy.

L'auteur - Wade Allison

Wade Allison, Physics Department and Keble College, University of Oxford

Sommaire

Physics for security
Magnetism and magnetic resonance
Interactions of ionising radiation
Mechanical waves and properties of matter
Information and data analysis
Analysis and damage by irradiation
Imaging with magnetic resonance
Medical imaging and therapy with ionising radiation
Ultrasound for imaging and therapy
Forward look and conclusions
Appendices: Conventions, nomenclature and units
Glossary of terms and abbreviations
Hints and answers to selected questions

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Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Wade Allison
Parution	26/10/2006
Nb. de pages	334
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	792g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780199203895
ISBN13	978-0-19-920389-5