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Fakultät Physik

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