medical applications

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ENLIGHT meeting on particle therapy in the Netherlands

The annual meeting of ENLIGHT, which focuses on particle therapy for cancer treatment, was held in the Netherlands

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Physics
29 September, 2016

New open source medical imaging tools

New toolbox, released by CERN and University of Bath collaboration, has applications in medical imaging and cancer diagnosis

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Knowledge sharing
05 September, 2016
Knowledge sharing
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05 September, 2016

A miniature accelerator to treat cancer

CERN has developed an accelerator just two metres long to be used in hospitals for medical imaging and the treatment of cancer

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Knowledge sharing
28 July, 2015
Knowledge sharing
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28 July, 2015

Taking biomedical research at CERN to the next level

The head of CERN's Medical Application Programme addresses a medical conference 60 years after the first use of protons to treat cancer

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Knowledge sharing
20 February, 2014
Knowledge sharing
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20 February, 2014

ICTR-PHE conference: follow the action

Follow the action at the ICTR-PHE conference via the conference blog

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Knowledge sharing
13 February, 2014
Knowledge sharing
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13 February, 2014

CERN to produce radioisotopes for health

Construction began today on the CERN MEDICIS research facility, which will make radioactive isotopes for medical applications

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Experiments
04 September, 2013
Experiments
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04 September, 2013

CERN scoops prizes at National Instruments awards

At a National Instruments conference in Texas last week, CERN received three awards for excellence in systems design

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Knowledge sharing
15 August, 2013
Knowledge sharing
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15 August, 2013

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