Phys4med.be Website Review

The contributions of physics to medicine are numerous and important, whether in the medical field or related paramedical disciplines. These contributions are well known, but it is not bad to paint here a panorama First and foremost, physics contributes to a good understanding of the human body. The blood and respiratory systems can not do without the laws of fluids. Wave physics is essential when it comes to talking about auditory perception or vision, whether it is normal functioning or the defects of the ear or the eye. Electrophysiology is concerned with the movement of ions and the production of current through membranes or along axons, and thus applies to the diagnostic level, we can only see the remarkable development of medical imaging, that it is based on X-rays like the traditional radiology and its modern extension that is the scanner (or digitized tomography), on the radioactive isotopes like the gamma-camera and the PET-scan which equip the nuclear medicine, or techniques such as ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that avoid ionizing radiation. Radiation therapy is not new but it is also experiencing some amazing developments, related precisely to the power of localization of tumors by imaging but also to the control of beams in intensity and direction. Alongside the doctor, the physiotherapist is by definition the specialist of movement, forces and energies. The publications in this field avoid more and more difficult the basic equations of mechanics. In addition, physiotherapy uses hot, cold, waves of any kind to treat problems of motor skills or physical fitness. And while talking about paramedics, we can not ignore the role played by physics in research laboratories and