it's pretty self explanitory, and i have these reasons so far: to calculate weight, dosage of medicine, and IV drip rate.
how else do doctors use math?
2006-12-17 10:43:02 · 5 answers · asked by chill out 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
doctors (and other people) use math cause it makes us 'think' and figure things out. it helps our brain develop by thinking on stuff.
actually math and physics come in use in some fields of medicin, a heart or brain surgeon needs to know math.
2006-12-17 10:53:47 · answer #1 · answered by Dirty 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are a few examples.
1) Neurologists who take EEGs (electro-encephalograms) are measuring brain voltages at various points in the brain to detect how the voltages surge around. There's normal wave motion, as well as all sorts of types of epilepsy and other problems that can be detected by this method. Unfortunately, the data, as they come out of the machine, are pretty noisy. Various mathematical "filters" must be applied to see the underlying wave phenomena. This is basically Fourier analysis on wave
forms that shows how the geometry of the complex, noisy forms is composed of stong, underlying primitive waves.
2) Sometimes you can treat a cancer by irradiating it. Now if you just shine a powerful beam of radiation straight through the cancer, you'll kill it, but you'll also kill everything on both sides of it that the beam passes through. It's much better to have a bunch of beams crossing in 3 dimensions so that the stuff in each beam isn't killed since the beams are weak, but all the beams go through the cancer, so it really gets "toasted."
3) PET scans and NMR scans use many 1-dimensional scans of the body to reproduce 2-D and 3-D views. Radiologists have to do this all the time - use math to reconstruct a 3-D view from many 1-D views.
2006-12-17 10:51:04 · answer #2 · answered by coolchap_einstein 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
honestly i dont think that doctors use math at all i think they use more of the science im stuying to be a doctor right now and my teacher says u need to know science to be a doctor not math the only time u will probably ever have to use math in being a doctor would be finding the expenses u need to be more into science for doctor
2006-12-17 10:48:20 · answer #3 · answered by Kristyn 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cellular growth rates to determine the age of tumors.
2006-12-17 10:50:53 · answer #4 · answered by sirheathen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For incisions. How far deep they should cut and where.
2006-12-17 10:50:32 · answer #5 · answered by Mariposa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋