Applied Physics

Unsurprisingly, Combat Military Vehicles Not Safe Enough

Professor Wei Sha from Queen’s University Belfast’s School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering is concerned with the combat safety of vehicles that use titanium alloys. Obviously the best way to remain safe is to actually not be at war but sinc ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2009 - 6:40pm

Heat Transfer: Planck's Law Demon Gets Pushed Farther Out (A Lot)

Plancks Law is a well-established physical law describes the transfer of heat between two objects. Some physicists have predicted that the law should break down when the objects are very close together but scientists had never been able to confirm, or meas ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2009 - 1:15pm

Scientific Critique of A dwell position verification method for high dose rate brachytherapy

    Liu, L., Prasad, S., Bassano, J.H., Keshler, B., Hahn, S. (2004). A dwell position verification method for high dose rate brachytherapy. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Volume 5, Number 1, pages 1-5. ...

Blog Post - Dayan Loria - Aug 2 2009 - 5:28am

Physical Principles Of Positron Emission Tomography And Its Hazard

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) was invented at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in the mid 1970s and was used as a research tool in neurology, cardiology, and oncology (1). It has been developed as a tool for imaging and ...

Article - Dayan Loria - Aug 25 2009 - 6:56pm

Radiation Oncology Facility Radiation Protection/ALARA Program

Sample Radiation Protection and Safety/ALARA Program based on Philippine Perspective Management Commitment Statement from the management. I. Organization and Responsibilities Chair Vice-Chair Board members Personnel      Authorized user      Radiation pro ...

Blog Post - Dayan Loria - Aug 19 2009 - 9:37pm

Scientific Critique of High dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy quality assurance: a practical guide.

    Wilkinson, DA (2006). High dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy quality assurance: a practical guide. Biomedical Imaging and Interventional Journal, pages 1-7. ...

Blog Post - Dayan Loria - Aug 20 2009 - 3:01am

Proton Therapy: One of the most popular modes of cancer treatment nowadays

    Proton Therapy (PT) is a high-quality radiation therapy and initially used to treat  human patients in Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. For about 50 years of its use in treating cancer, it has been reported to have an excellent clinical result especially ...

Blog Post - Dayan Loria - Aug 17 2009 - 4:54am

Viability Of Quantum Computers As Unpredictable As Quantum Mechanics

Prospects for building a practical quantum computer are as unpredictable as quantum mechanics itself. However, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2009 - 5:57pm

Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy in Prostate Cancer

One of the emerging techniques in prostate cancer imaging is magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), which provides bio-chemical information from body tissue in a safe and noninvasive method. In the presence of an applied external magnetic field, the atomic ...

Blog Post - Dayan Loria - Aug 19 2009 - 6:52am

PMC-BioPhysics: A New Open Access Journal

“I am very pleased to be working with PhysMath Central as I believe open access is the future for publication of all bio-related research. I am also excited at the prospect that online publishing brings the ability to post video and raw data as supplement ...

Blog Post - Nicholas Horton - Aug 19 2009 - 6:44pm