Biomedical Physics
Lecture
| Lecturer | Prof. Armin Lühr, Prof. Dr. Matthias F. Schneider, Dr. Anne Bialek |
| Language | English |
| Credits | 9 CP |
| Content | I. Physics of Physiology & Biophysics 1) History of the Role of Physics in Medicine. How Biology stimulated physics and how physics stimulated biology 2) Thermodynamics: The first and 2 nd Law and its statistical interpretation. Diffusion Math Section: Probability Theory 3) Energetics and physical chemistry in living systems, chem. Potential and puffer systems; Blood oxygenation (Allostery) 4) Biomolecules and The Cell: From Material to Protein Folding 5) Hydrodynamics of Blood flow, viscosity, FL Effect and Blood Clotting Math Section: The Navier Stokes Equation 6) The Heart as a mechanical pump; The heart as a muscle Math Section: Elasticity Theory 7) Membranes & Introduction to Neuroscience 8) Physics of hearing; resonance, impedance and non-linear oscillators Math Section: The Wave Equation 9) Physics of the eye II. Medical Physics: Imaging tools 1) X-Ray and Computed Tomography (CT) Math Section: Fourier Transformation, Convolution 2) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 3) Ultrasound 4) EKG and Blood Pressure 5) Modern Tools: Cell Mechanics, Microfluidics, PCR, CTC, DNA-Sq |
Exercise
| Responsible person | Tom Rosenstein |
| Moodle | https://moodle.tu-dortmund.de/course/ |
| Time & place | See Moodle |




