NIKOS makes coronary tests comfortable
A new method for the radiography of coronary blood vessels (known as angiography) promises to make examinations much easier for patients.
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A new method for the radiography of coronary blood vessels (known as angiography) promises to make examinations much easier for patients.
Since the discovery of X-rays, fundamental physics has been a source of ideas for radiography and medical imaging. A new imaging method firmly rooted in particle physics was chosen by Time magazine ...
New types of materials suggest new ways of handling high-energy particle beams, but can carbon nanotubes handle high-energy particles? Specialists from Yerevan outline the possibilities.
A new linear accelerator is on course to bring about important advances in cancer therapy following successful tests at CERN last year. The LIBO Linac Booster was conceived in 1993 by Ugo Amaldi (then...
At a graduation ceremony at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, technician Mik Rebak was awarded an honorary MSc for his ingenious work in engineering diamond targets in nuclear an...
The special demands of particle physics experiments can be a challenge to suppliers. Specialist firm Electron Tubes mounted a programme for photomultiplier housings.
A new device that can operate in close proximity to highly sensitive superconducting sensors could open up new detector possibilities.
What began life as an unwanted energy loss has become a major research industry. Dominique Cornuéjols of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble looks at the history and accomplishm...
The recent European Particle Accelerator Conference in Vienna underlined how far and wide particle accelerators have infiltrated into science and technology. Colin Johnson reports.
With their ultrashort wavelengths, X-rays are excellent probes of finestructure. An international team at the DESY laboratory has developed a technique for attaining wavelengths of less than 100 n...