ABSTRACT
Over the past 70 years, biology and physics have dramatically converged and medicine has beneted from this on both the diagnostic and therapeutic levels. Medical physics, or the application of the concepts, theories, and methods of physics to patient care, is the result of this type of “crosscontamination.” An increasing number of patients over the years have enjoyed improved wellbeing and health on the strength of new discoveries and applications. Medical physics is currently applied within a number of medical specialties, both as a diagnostic and interventional tool, with examples including radiology and medical imaging, radiation oncology, and nuclear medicine. Furthermore, a number of physical agents (ionizing and nonionizing electromagnetic radiation, laser light, static electric and magnetic elds, ultrasound, gamma rays, radio frequencies, etc.) are commonly used in ofcial medicine at hospitals and private clinics. Finally, over the last couple of decades and within the framework of the so-called Epi-biochemical/genetic approach to medicine, a new eld of scientic interest and research has developed. This considers the interactions between extremely low frequency electromagnetic elds (ELF-EMF) and biological matter in order to restore, maintain, and improve health.
