Sentences with phrase «uses radiation energy»

Radiation mesothelioma therapy uses radiation energy to kill the cancer cells.

Not exact matches

80 keV (125 times less than permitted) With additional safety aspects we furthermore guarantee the absolutely safe use of our X-ray systems in the inspection of products in the food sector: - We only use low - energy, soft X-rays - X-ray voltage and current are individually adapted for every product - The X-ray tube is hermetically shielded - All the radiation protection covers are monitored by safety switches - X-rays can only be turned on if the system functions perfectly

CyberKnife and other noninvasive radiosurgery systems are producing ever more accurate energy beams, raising the possibility of extending the use of potentially lethal radiation to fight Parkinson's, epilepsy and other afflictions

Biochemists have managed to synthesise 10 of them in experiments that simulate lifeless prebiotic environments, using proxies for lightning, ionising radiation from space, or hydrothermal vents to provide the necessary energy.

Instead of relying on light waves emitted by electrons, it would use radiation emitted when the nucleus is excited to a high energy state, and then drops into a lower energy state.

Terahertz radiation is also low energy, so if they are used to scan people, the waves are less dangerous than x-rays or microwaves.

Using data from NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission, Raeder and his Ph.D. student Shiva Kavosi (lead author) found that Kelvin - Helmholtz waves actually occur 20 percent of the time at the magnetopause and can change the energy levels of our planet's radiation belts.

Cell phones use non-ionizing radiation, which differs from the ionizing radiation of x-rays and radioactive material in that it does not have enough energy to knock around — or ionize — electrons or particles in atoms.

Many smart phones, for example, put out higher levels of radiation, and the use of wired headsets can decrease the amount of energy emanated near the head.

They can also be used for biological labeling because of their low toxicity, chemical stability, and intense luminescence when excited by near - IR radiation, which can penetrate tissue much better than higher energy radiation such as ultraviolet, as is often required with quantum dot labels.

This book is about building design, energy use, radiation hazards and air quality.

On the other hand, ionizing radiation such as x-rays and the used in CT scans or gamma - ray Mammograms do have enough power to change matter, because the wavelength is low and of high energy.

For the kilogram, they suggested using the Planck constant, which relates the energy of electromagnetic radiation to its frequency.

These interactions are known to be much weaker than those within the 2D sheets, however, using high - energy synchrotron X-ray radiation to precisely measure a single TiS2 crystal, the researchers were able to show that the interlayer interactions are in fact stronger than theory indicates, and involve significant electron sharing.

The Max Planck researcher and his colleague propose another change to the strategy for the Starshot project: instead of a huge energy - hungry laser, the Sun's radiation could be used to accelerate a nanoprobe beyond the solar system.

In 2003, he joined the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, which has a long - running research program that uses radiation to create sterile insects, which can help reduce natural populations.

Radiation — Radiation is the use of high - energy radiation — primarily X-rays — to kill cancer cells.

Radiation therapy (RT) uses high - energy radiation rays to treat cancer cells.

radiology The science dealing with X-rays and other high - energy radiation, especially the use of such radiation for the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Radiation therapy uses high - energy radiation to target cancer cells in a specific part of the body.

Powerful lasers can therefore be used as microscopes to explore, during few nanoseconds, the high - energy radiation processes occurring in astrophysical objects from regions largely unresolved by the most powerful telescopes.

If this beam of high - energy radiation is pointed toward Earth, these high - energy pulses can be detected using radio and gamma ray telescopes.

Radiation, or radiation therapy, uses high - energy particles or waves to destroy or damage cancer cells.

Radiation is the use of high - energy radiation — primarily X-rays — to kill cancer cells.

Brian Wirth, UT - ORNL Governor's Chair for Computational Nuclear Engineering, was nominated by the AAAS section on physics for «advancing knowledge of radiation damage mechanisms and fuel performance in fission and fusion energy via multiscale modeling using high performance computing validated by experiments.»

Radiation — Radiation therapy is the use of high - energy radiation — primarily X-rays — to kill cancer cells.

If this beam of high - energy radiation is pointed toward the Earth, these high - energy pulses can be detected using radio telescopes.

Such a telescope would use large arrays of ground - based telescopes to detect blue flashes of Cerenkov radiation, which are caused by very high energy gamma - ray photons from cosmic sources smashing into the atmosphere.

Radiation therapy (also referred to as radiation oncology) is a type of cancer treatment that involves the use of the use of high - energy radiation, primarily X-rays, to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors.

The PBCr developed will be used for the construction of novel light sources of high - energy monochromatic electromagnetic radiation by means of a Crystalline Undulator (CU).

While cautioning that the new radiation delivery system is still far from ready for use in people, Abraham notes that P32 gives off high energy that can penetrate through 5 millimeters of human tissue, making it a good candidate to tackle colon cancer since colon cancer cells can often form large, thick tumors into which drugs may not penetrate very well.

Other uses of vitamin E include but are not limited to; night cramps, epilepsy, cysts in the breasts, restless leg syndrome, brain diseases, problems in the nervous system, radiation, an increase energy, muscle strength improvement, and physical endurance improvements.

Boosting the body's energy levels, astragalus is also a promising medicine to use for those undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.

Radiation therapy (sometimes called radiotherapy, x-ray therapy, or irradiation) is the treatment of disease using penetrating beams of high energy waves or streams of particles called radiation.

It uses high - energy radiation (similar to x-rays but at a much higher energy level) that injures the DNA (genetic material) of cells.

In addition to thermal energy, the sun also produces high levels of ultraviolet radiation that many herp species use for specific physiological functions.

Unfortunately, for me, I have no idea of how human energy use compares to the amount of solar radiation that the Earth receives.

I ask because my limited understanding is that temperature is related to kinetic energy, but would not register an overall increase in potential energy, in which case energy from the sun could be partitioned in heat energy emitted from the planet and work used to increase potential energy, possibly allowing an energy balance that does not require a radiation balance, and also does not require a warming effect.

Through appropriate building design, behavioural change and demand management (this does not mean living like a cave - man, just using resources efficiently) and appropriate matching of energy source with demand (i.e using solar radiation, not brown coal fired electricity for water heating), it is possible to eliminate these emissions completely.

The climate models further hide the «back radiation» energy by using double the optical depth for low level clouds compared with reality.

More specifically, the scientists have successfully been able to solve the problem of dye - sensitized solar cells (DSSC), namely that the dyes used to create energy in these cells would eventually be destroyed by UV radiation.

By increasing the humidity, the solar energy is used more efficiently, or putting it another way there is less energy lost to space by the emission of longwave radiation because humid air has a strong greenhouse effect.

Radiative transfer models use fundamental physical equations and observations to translate this increased downward radiation into a radiative forcing, which effectively tells us how much increased energy is reaching the Earth's surface.

One last note, the energy budget framework can also be used to understand the consequences of geo - engineering scenarios that block incoming solar radiation to compensate the warming by CO2:

The use of Stefan / Boltzmann to estimate how much global temperatures will rise as a result of this, also only looks at the transfer of energy by radiation.

Solar thermal power plants may also be hybrid systems that use other fuels (usually natural gas) to supplement energy from the sun during periods of low solar radiation.

From the above equation, the small change in global mean temperature (GMT) as a result of change in the radiation energy emitted by the globe may be calculated using the equation:

It would still pick up heat from direct conduction, as Gary Moran has insisted; and it would not be correct to say that there would be NO interaction with radiation (another point by Tom Vonk): if there are lower - energy bands, they will be used by the gas to absorb photons.

The evolution of global mean surface temperatures, zonal means and fields of sea surface temperatures, land surface temperatures, precipitation, outgoing longwave radiation, vertically integrated diabatic heating and divergence of atmospheric energy transports, and ocean heat content in the Pacific is documented using correlation and regression analysis.

And that to use it as an example or reason why we are thus NOT affecting the earth through a multi million year change in long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases — which absorb and re radiate thermal radiation, slowly increasing the energy balance of the earth — is irrational.