In this seminar, four CERN Fellows and Doctoral Students will showcase the diversity of medical applications that arise from technologies developed at CERN.
State-of-the-art techniques developed for particle accelerators, detectors, and physics computing have many applications beyond the high-energy physics community. One area of medicine that can utilise CERN’s technologies and expertise is hadron therapy, a rapidly developing technique for tumour treatment. However, for devices to be appropriate for medical use, there are often significant design challenges to overcome.
One of the talks will report on the MEDeGUN project, which aims to design an electron gun to be used in an Electron Beam Ion Source (EBIS) designed to serve as a C6+ injector for LINAC-based hadron therapy facilities.
Also focusing on LINAC technologies for hadron therapy, there will be a presentation about the 750 MHz Radio Frequency Quadrupole, also known as the miniature accelerator, and the TULIP project.
Detection systems are a key component of any imaging system and the links between HEP and PET are longstanding. The newest research work on scintillating crystals for PET developed at CERN will be reported on.
We will also hear the latest news from BioLEIR, a project which explores the possibility of transforming the Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) accelerator into a multidisciplinary, biomedical research facility.
The topics are indeed fascinating and diverse, please come along and find out more!
Attendance is open to all without registration. If you require a CERN access card please contact us as indicated on the seminar page.