University of Salahaddin

College of science
Department of Physics

Course Book
Medical Physics Text
(Physics in Medicine)

Academic year-2010/2011

Lect. Abdurrahman Khaleel Alassafee

Email: - alassafee@ yahoo.com

Period time of the lesson: - is (2) hour per week

Course objective
these course give the people the usefulness of
physics in understanding the behavior of the body,
these lecture covers two board areas of medical
physics:- the application of physics such as
mechanics, heat, light, sound electricity, and
magnetism to medicine and the physics of various
organ system such as the eyes, ears, lungs, and
the heart.
Since most important applications of physics in
medicine involve the field of radiology, they cover
diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine,
radiotherapy, and radiation protection.

Forms of teaching
Different types of teaching will be used to reach the objective of
the subject:- power point, over head, and different animation
flash for all subject of thermodynamic subject.
Grading
The exam along two courses has 30 marks, classroom activates;
Participate of student of the subject and quiz along two courses
has 10 marks. Therefore the marks of two courses are 40%.
Final exam: - 60%
Course material
Required books:Medical Physics" (1978) by John R.Cameron
Skofronic, Awiely- intersince puplication

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Physics of the Body" (1999), by John R.Cameron

Skofronic , Medical physics publishing

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medical phy\m.physics site\Medical Physics.htm \: -3

Academic year programmed

Week 1:- October 2010
.Terminology, Modeling, and Measurement
Week 2:- October
,Forces on and in the body, Static
Week 3:- October
Fractional forces, Dynamics
Week 4:- October
Physics of the skeleton, what is bone made of, how strong are
your bones
Week 5:- November
Lubrication of bone joints, measurement of bone mineral in the
,body
Week 6:- November
Heat and cold in medicine, physical basis of heat and
temperature, thermometry and temperature scales, thermographmapping the body's temperature.
Week 7:- November
Heat therapy, use of cold in medicine.
Week 8:- November

Cryosurgery, safety with cryosurgery, energy, work, and power

of the body.
Week 9:-December
Conservation of energy in the body, energy changes in the body,
work and power
Week 10:- December
Heat losses from the body.
Week 11:- December
Pressure, measurement of pressure in the body, pressure in the
skull, eye pressure, pressure in the digestive system
Week 12:- December
Pressure in the skeleton, pressure in the urinary bladder ,
pressure effect while diving
Week 13:- January
Hyperbolic oxygen therapy(HOT), the physics of the lungs and
breathing, the airways.
Week 14:- January
How the blood and lungs interact
Week 15:- January
measurment of lung volumes, pressure- airflow-volume
relationships of the lungs
Week 16:- February
physics of the alveoli, the breathing mechanisms, airways
resistance, work of breathing

Week 17:- February

Physics of some common lung diseases, physics of the
cardiovascular system, major components of the cardiovascular
system
Week 18:- February
work done by the heart, O2 and co2 exchange in the capillary
system, blood pressure and its measurement
Week 19:- February
Pressure across the blood vessel wall (transmural pressure), hoe
fast does your blood flow,
Week 20:- March
Blood flow- laminar and turbulent, hearts sounds, the physics of
some cardiovascular disease. Some other function of blood
Week 21:- March
Electricity within the body, the nervous system and the neuron,
electrical potentials of nerves,
Week 22:- March
Electrical signals from muscles- the electromyogram
Week 23:- March
Electrical signals from the heart- the electrocardiogram
Week 24 :- April
Electrical signals from the brain- the electroencephalogram,
electrical signals from the eye- the electroretinogram and the
electrooculogram.

Week 25 :- April
Magnetic signals from te heart and brain- the megnetocardigram
and the magnetoephalogram, current research involving
electricity in the body.
Week 26 :- April
Cardiovascular instrument, biopotential of the heart, electrodes
Week 27 :- April
Amplifiers, patient monitoring, defibrillators, pacemakers
Week 28 :- May
Applications of electricity and magnetism in medicine, electrical
shock,
Week 29 :- May
High frequency electricity in medicine, low frequency electricity
and magnetism in medicine, current research involving
electricity applied to the body
Week 30 :- May
sound in medicine, general properties, the body as a drum
(pressure in medicine), the stethoscope, ultrasound pictures of
the body.

Typical examination
Of
Medical physics
Q1/ what is the ratio of your pulse rate to your breathing
Q2/ what is the basic type of force that causes muscle
contraction.
Q3/ How does ultrasonic diathermy differ from microwave
diathermy.
Q4/ by what percent does your metabolic rate increase if you
have a fever 2C above normal
Q5/ what is negative pressure