This is a comprehensive, completely revised and expanded edition of Brown and Smallwood: Medical Physics and Physiological Measurement, published by Blackwell Scientific in 1981. Biomedical Physics and Engineering has been written for the pioneering medical physics degrees at the University of Sheffield. It provides the conceptual tools required to apply the techniques of science and technology to medicine. It includes the techniques (biological effects of radiation, image formation, measurement of physiological processes) needed to illustrate the applications of the conceptual tools, some in general and others in more detail.It is written to provide a complete background for students of medical physics and biomedical engineering, from advanced undergraduate to vocational Master's degrees. It assumes that the student will have a basic knowledge of mathematics and statistics. Detailed derivations are kept to a minimum and appropriate references to the mathematical background are provided.

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