medical applications

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ClearPEM clarifies breast cancer diagnosis

Knowledge gained in developing particle detectors for the LHC has been used to create a dedicated PET device for breast scans

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Knowledge sharing
29 July, 2013
Knowledge sharing
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29 July, 2013

Clinical trials using carbon ions begin at CNAO

This week, for the first time at the CNAO hadrontherapy centre in Italy, a beam of carbon ions was used to treat a cancer patient

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Knowledge sharing
16 November, 2012
Knowledge sharing
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16 November, 2012

Could LEIR serve biomedicine?

At a recent brainstorming meeting at CERN, over 200 scientists discussed the possibility of modifying LEIR to serve the biomedical community

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Accelerators
18 July, 2012
Accelerators
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18 July, 2012

ISOLDE to produce isotopes for medical research

The CERN-MEDICIS project will use waste beams from ISOLDE to produce isotopes that could help in the war on cancer

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Experiments
06 April, 2012

Physics and medicine: a winning alliance

The medical and physics communities came together at ICTR-PHE 2012 to trade techniques and technologies for the fight against cancer

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Knowledge sharing
08 March, 2012
Knowledge sharing
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08 March, 2012