A large proportion of these radioisotopes are produced in particle accelerators, and the number of institutions that operate linear accelerators or cyclotrons ... particle accelerators poses ...

A new piece of medical equipment installed in a lead-lined vault is bringing new cancer treatment options to people across ...

In layman’s terms it was a “cancer zapper”; a linear accelerator with a human ... the patient would be hit with a laser-like beam of radiation. AECL carefully ran test after test and could ...

WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital unveiled its first investment for their new cancer care center. This investment is ...

Most radiation therapy uses machines called linear accelerators. These machines direct high-energy x rays at specific cancer cells in a patient's body, shrinking or removing them. Radiation therapists ...

The Wakefield Acceleration and Radiation Generation (WARG ... high brightness X-ray light sources, such as the Linear Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free electron laser (FEL) at SLAC National ...

TAU Systems, a producer of ultrafast, compact laser-plasma accelerators, has announced that it has joined a DARPA-funded initiative to develop new radiation testing capabilities for space-bound ...

Six events of accidental exposure, relating to the same type of accelerator and involving massive overdoses, are known to have happened in the 1980's in USA and Canada. This type of accelerator relied ...

Proton and heavy ion testing, conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, confirmed that EdgeCortix’s accelerator demonstrates radiation tolerance suitable ...