This new
edition has been updated and includes a discussion of information theory
and descriptions of CT scan, endoscopy, MRI and fMRI
imaging, techniques that were not available at the writing of the
earlier editions. A word about units. Most physics and chemistry
textbooks now use the MKS International System of units (SI). In
practice, however, a variety of units continues to be in use. For
example, in the SI system, pressure is expressed in units of pascal
(kg/m2). Both in common use and in the scientific literature one often
finds pressure also expressed in units of dynes/cm2, Torr (mm Hg), psi,
and atm. In this book I have used mostly SI units. However, other units
have also been used when common usage so dictated. In those cases
conversion factors have been provided either within the text or in
a compilation at the end of Appendix A..
a compilation at the end of Appendix A..
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