Usando a antimatéria na medicina moderna
Revista Brasileira de Ensino de FísicaNeste artigo, fazemos uma breve exposição de como um dos conceitos fundamentais da física moderna, a existência de antimatéria, tem aplicação na medicina, na chamada tomografia por emissão de pósitrons (PET na sigla em inglês).
A.C.B. Machado, V. Pleitez, M.C. Tijero
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Frontiers in Oncology, 2019 It is estimated that more than 6 million pet dogs are diagnosed with cancer annually in the USA. Both primary care and specialist veterinarians are frequently called upon to provide clinical care that improves the quality and/or quantity of life for ...
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Re-engineering a nanodosimetry Monte Carlo code into Geant4: software design and first results
, 2009 A set of physics models for nanodosimetry simulation is being re-engineered for use in Geant4-based simulations. This extension of Geant4 capabilities is part of a larger scale R&D project for multi-scale simulation involving adaptable, co-working ...
Gargioni, E., Grichine, V., Pia, M. G.
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Physics Attitude in Pre-Health Professions Students Upon Connecting Physics to the Medical Field [PDF]
, 2020 Collegiate physics professors have long been familiar with the issue of students’ attitudes towards the subject material. This is especially prevalent in pre-health professional students - non-majors - who are often required to take the introductory ...
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Formalism for Supporting the Development of Verifiably Safe Medical Guidelines with Statecharts [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Improving the effectiveness and safety of patient care is the ultimate objective for medical cyber-physical systems. Many medical best practice guidelines exist, but most of the existing guidelines in handbooks are difficult for medical staff to remember and apply clinically.
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Security of Medical Cyber-physical Systems: An Empirical Study on Imaging Devices [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Recent years have witnessed a boom of connected medical devices, which brings security issues in the meantime. Medical imaging devices, an essential part of medical cyber-physical systems, play a vital role in modern hospitals and are often life-critical. However, security and privacy issues in these medical cyber-physical systems are sometimes ignored.
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Virtual Mentoring for Medical Physicists: Results of a Global Online Survey
Journal of Medical PhysicsPurpose: Medical physics professional development is limited in parts of the globe and can be aided by virtual mentoring. A global online perception survey was conducted to elucidate the characteristics of the preferred virtual mentoring program. Methods:
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Medically unexplained physical symptoms
Medicine, 2008 Abstract Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are physical symptoms that trigger the sufferer to seek healthcare, but which remain unexplained after appropriate medical assessment. They are very common, and cause significant distress and disability.
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“Now Boarding: The Flight from Physics” David Goodstein’s acceptance speech for the 1999 Oersted Medal presented by the American Association of Physics Teachers, 11 January 1999 [PDF]
, 1999 All across the country, the number of students majoring in physics is said to be at its lowest point since Sputnik, 40 years ago. The most important role of the college physics course today seems to be to weed out a few poor souls who might otherwise ...
Goodstein, David
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2D Detectors for Particle Physics and for Imaging Applications
, 2005 The demands on detectors for particle detection as well as for medical and astronomical X-ray imaging are continuously pushing the development of novel pixel detectors.
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