Your favourite mathematical forms

[vernon]

I kid you not i get an allowance.

Not enough for sex and drugs and rack n roll then?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Bucky balls.

 

[ufkacbln]

Bucky balls.

We use them!!!!!!

When we want to introduce a radioactive "aerosol" into a patient's lungs to see the distribution (part of diagnosing pulmonary embolism PE ) one of the machines used forms bucky balls containing the radiopharmaceutical

Basically if the patient has defects in the blood supply (perfusion scan) that are not matched by the ventilation scan... the problem is a PE, or in this case from the Hrvard teaching files multiple!

If the defects match then it affects air and blood distribution, excluding PE

 

[ufkacbln]

We also use the Fourier Transform in image processing

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The simplicity of the four vector formalism of Special Relativity. In particular the way the electric and magnetic fields transform.