Cancer therapy initiative is launched at CERN
The European Network for Research in Light-Ion Hadron Therapy (ENLIGHT) has been established to coordinate European efforts in radiation therapy using light-ion beams. Light to physicists, carbon ions...
Major instrumentation meeting visits Europe
An expert, runs the saying, is one who knows more and more about less and less. An annual mecca for instrumentation experts is the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Nuclear and P...
Medical accelerator is on course
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...
Precision beams for hadron therapy
Increased life expectancy goes hand in hand with support from science. At present, about one in three of us will have an encounter with cancer and, in developed countries, about one in eight will have...
