Sentences with phrase «linear accelerator»

«We retired the old cobalt machines and replaced them with linear accelerators, and we hired physicists to make sure the machines were doing what they were supposed to.»

The research will improve the capabilities of linear accelerators used in radiation therapy for cancer patients.

The first laser light produced today with the most advanced and most powerful linear accelerator in the world marks the beginning a new era of research in Europe.

In radiation therapy, linear accelerators deliver highly focused beams of electrons to destroy cancerous cells.

The new lab will also host small linear accelerators for basic research in nuclear physics and astrophysics.

Utilizing treatment planning software with PET / CT and MRI fusion capability, the treatment is delivered with a state - of - the - art linear accelerator equipped with on - board imaging and intensity - modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) capabilities.

The Ohio State University Veterinary Medical Center has taken a recent leap in the fight against cancer in pets with its new high - tech linear accelerator unit, which is the device most commonly used to treat cancer in humans.

The new X-ray laser will work in parallel with the existing one, with each occupying one - third of SLAC's 2 - mile - long linear accelerator tunnel.

Q: The French have proposed putting in a small linear accelerator, I understand.

WNCN's «What's Next» report by Melanie Sanders profiles how advanced veterinary medicine technology in the form of a sophisticated linear accelerator is the newest weapon in the war on pert cancer.

The X-ray laser light of the European XFEL was generated from an electron beam from a superconducting linear accelerator, the key component of the X-ray laser.

In Europe, highlights include the future of the CERN laboratory, with visits to the Compact Linear Collider test facility and the LHC's new linear accelerator currently under construction.

CyberKnife, also called stereotactic radiosurgery, is a non-invasive way to deliver radiation to tumors with sub-millimeter accuracy, enabling treatment with greater precision than traditional linear accelerators and IMRT machines.

External Beam radiation therapy with a 6MV linear accelerator with 6 different electron energies ranging from 5 - 14 MeV

Musk's plan would rev up the pods from their stations using magnetic linear accelerators, but once they're in the main travel tubes, they would be given periodic boosts by external linear electric motors.

Her family's charitable organization, The Vincent HoSang Family Foundation (VHFF), have embarked on a project initiative to raise $ 5 million this year to purchase two linear accelerator machines which will be donated to hospitals in Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies.

«In other words, it will help medical physicists and linear accelerator designers to better understand the physics behind the equipment with which they will be working.»

The SSC's case was different: «When the Department of Energy pulled funding for the SSC project, the linac [linear accelerator] had never been assembled and tested,» says William Courtney, Trace's director of accelerator operations.

At the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital, we offer the latest technology, including Varian's TrueBeam ™, a new generation linear accelerator that uses image - guided radiation therapy (IGRT) to provide the safest and most accurate results.

The Department at BIDMC currently has three conventional linear accelerators in operation and a CyberKnife ® unit.

In 1954, an era where only 5 % of patients with Hodgkin lymphoma survived, Drs. Henry Kaplan and Edward Ginzton invented the first medical linear accelerator in the Western Hemisphere to deliver therapeutic radiotherapy (RT) with improved accuracy and potency, leading to curative outcomes in a group of patients with Hodgkin lymphoma.

They work in collaboration with a compassionate team of human - licensed radiation therapists that are trained and experienced in the delivery of radiation therapy and the operation of advanced linear accelerators.

We are fortunate to have cutting - edge technology available in the form of a Varian Novalis TX linear accelerator with a Protura six - degrees - of - freedom treatment couch.

We are the ONLY center in the world that provides «high tech and high touch» linear accelerator generated radiation therapy with both photon and electron beam radiation, Trilogy based stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and the robotically controlled, computer controlled, Cyberknife stereotactic radiosurgery.

This beast, pictured below, is «a compact - channel linear accelerator that fires a high - explosive round at incredible speed, delivering both kinetic and explosive force to both hard and soft targets alike.»

Providing monthly and annual QA for Varian Trilogy linear accelerator using Scanditronix Wellhofer 2D and ARM 1D scanning systems

Provided one - on - one support to a large client base, nationally and internationally, regarding linear accelerator modeling, proton therapy treatment planning systems, and common clinical medical physics tasks.

This team is equipped with the most advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies available to dogs and cats including CT scanner, MRI, and linear accelerator for traditional and stereotactic radiation therapy.

A state of the art linear accelerator with a multileaf collimator became operational in October of 2002 and we currently irradiate approximately 100 patients a year.

The new X-ray laser will work in parallel with the existing one, with each occupying one - third of SLAC's 2 - mile - long linear accelerator («linac») tunnel.

Among the advances that have already been made are linear accelerators that generate higher - energy radiation beams, and more versatile patient tables that enable radiation doses to be delivered to the tumor from a variety of angles and directions.

In contrast, FELs fire electrons from a linear accelerator into an undulator, in which magnets of alternating polarity push and pull the electrons along a sinuous path.

At the end of the linear accelerator, magnets first steer the positrons and electrons into separate rings and then bring them together to collide inside the BaBar detector.

«The linear accelerator has seen some substantial damages,» Soichi Wakatsuki, director of the Photon Factory, wrote to the international community on 15 March.

Energy from the collision creates positrons, which are funneled back into the linear accelerator, and more electrons.

Practical by nature, Johnson had already begun to wonder if he could actually make something with atoms, as opposed to merely puzzling over ghostly traces of their constituents on a linear accelerator's plates.

Another woman runs the linear accelerator at Stanford.

[They'd] then shoot them through a linear accelerator that would decay the orbit and would bring this mass of material closer and closer to the Sun until it got to the orbit of the Earth.

A linear accelerator, which also operates at 3 GeV, injects into both rings but can also drive X-ray pulses as short as 100 fs.

Our straw - man designs say we should be able to build a linear accelerator well under a kilometer long.»

The big challenge was to compress the electron bunches, sent out by the linear accelerator SLAC, to ultra short duration.

SNS's linear accelerator, or linac, features a set of 20 - plus cryomodules — large, barrel - shaped capsules, necessary for focusing and accelerating the proton beam.

The state of Texas auctioned off the linear accelerator equipment in 1996 to a Denton, Tex. — based company for the bargain price of $ 5 million — the book value for the unused parts was over $ 20 million, Courtney says.

High radio frequency (RF) electrical fields are used to accelerate the electrons in the linear accelerator (linac), booster and storage ring.

MR - linac merges MRI technology with a linear accelerator, allowing doctors to treat tumors with greater precision