Fingerstyle arrangements

http://www.acousticfingerstyle.com/midifil5.htmhttp://www.acousticfingerstyle.com/midifil5.htm

http://familieassink.com/documents/L...tle%20Wing.pdf

Music on Gibson website

http://www2.gibson.com/Lessons/Skills-House.aspx

Mickey Baker course website

http://www.thumbpicker.com/mickeybaker/index.htm

AAPM videos hosted at Vimeo

vimeo.com/aapm

Pick and fingerstyle technique

http://www.tuckandpatti.com/pick-finger_tech.html

A link has been established between music, rhythmic ability, and language skills. In an article published today in the Journal of Neuroscience, Nina Kraus and Adam Tierney of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, describe their study of 124 Chicago high school students. The students were asked to tap their finger along to a metronome and their accuracy was computed, then their brain waves were recorded using electroencephalography as they listened to a repeated spoken syllable. What the researchers found was that the teens’ ability to keep the beat was directly related to their brain waves’ response to the speech syllable. “It may be that musical training—with its emphasis on rhythmic skills—can exercise the auditory system,” said Kraus. Previous studies have also linked rhythm and reading ability. It may be that musical training can help students improve many skills, such as speech. - See more at: http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2013/09/musical-training-may-aid-language-processing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+physicstoday%2Fpt2+%28Physics+Today+News+Picks%29#sthash.dEDk8mLz.dpuf







http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2013/09/musical-training-may-aid-language-processing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+physicstoday%2Fpt2+%28Physics+Today+News+Picks%29

Joe Satriani signature licks

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Hal-Leonard-The-Best-of-Joe-Satriani-Signature-Licks-Book-with-CD--940338-i1160687.gc

Troy Stetina recommends this for left hand guitar technique. He recorded the solos.

Calibration products

For reference
http://www.rpdinc.com/R-Calibration_Products_Phantoms.pdf

Clinical medical physics in diagnostic imaging

http://online.medphys.org/resource/1/mphya6/v38/i12/piii_s1?view=fulltext&bypassSSO=1

Will there be a shortage of diagnostic imaging physicists due to lack of sufficient number of residencies?

Radiation Biology: A handbook for students and teachers

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/TCS-42_web.pdf

Removing CT motion artifacts

Nice article on medphysweb by Jude Dineley
http://medicalphysicsweb.org/cws/article/research/53673

IMRT QA point counterpoint, hardware vs software verification

http://online.medphys.org/resource/1/mphya6/v40/i7/p070601_s1?view=fulltext&bypassSSO=1

Good point/counterpoint article.

Henry Kaplan and the story of Hodgkins disease

This book comes highly recommended from a colleague. It will make it's way on to my summer reading list.

Stereotactic cases, why we prescribe to the isodose line we do

Good topic on the Medphys list server.
Scott Dube posted this link to a good paper on the topic and gave the following commentary:


QUESTION:
What is the rationale behind cranial SRS prescriptions lines laying
> somewhere around 80-90%??

The dose falloff outside the target is steeper when you prescribe to 80%.
This paper even recommends 70%.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22422384

Linac Guts

Siemens Primus

Just a couple of shots with the cover off. I love these, I think I need to brush up my photography skills, or keep the Nikon camera with me. This is an older machine and Siemens has exited the radiotherapy business so you won't see them around much longer. Had to replace a serial cable.