From particle physics to medical applications /

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"Version: 20170601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 20-21).Introduction : technologies for particle physics -- Medical applications of particle physics -- Particle detectors for medical imaging -- Charpak and the multiwire proportional chamber -- Townsend and PET imaging -- Hadron therapy -- The PIMMS collaboration -- ENLIGHT : collaboration is key -- Medical imaging for radiotherapy -- New horizons in CT imaging -- Conclusions.CERN is the world's largest particle physics research laboratory. Since it was established in 1954, it has made an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the fundamental particles and their interactions, and also to the technologies needed to analyse their properties and behaviour. The experimental challenges have pushed the performance of particle accelerators and detectors to the limits of our technical capabilities, and these groundbreaking technologies can also have a significant impact in applications beyond particle physics. In particular, the detectors developed for particle physics have led to improved techniques for medical imaging, while accelerator technologies lie at the heart of the irradiation methods that are widely used for treating cancer. Indeed, many important diagnostic and therapeutic techniques used by healthcare professionals are based either on basic physics principles or the technologies developed to carry out physics research. Ever since the discovery of x-rays by Roentgen in 1895, physics has been instrumental in the development of technologies in the biomedical domain, including the use of ionizing radiation for medical imaging and therapy. Some key examples that are explored in detail in this book include scanners based on positron emission tomography, as well as radiation therapy for cancer treatment. Even the collaborative model of particle physics is proving to be effective in catalysing multidisciplinary research for medical applications, ensuring that pioneering physics research is exploited for the benefit of all.Final-year undergraduates, new PhD students and early-career scientists.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader. or Kindle reader.Manjit Dosanjh is Senior Advisor for Medical Applications at CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Dosanjh graduated in biochemistry/chemistry and holds a PhD in biochemical engineering. After a post-doctoral position at MIT, she was a senior researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before joining CERN. Since 2000 she has focused on applying the technologies developed for particle physics to the life sciences domain. She played a key role in launching the European Network for Light Ion Hadron Therapy (ENLIGHT), a multidisciplinary platform that takes a collaborative approach to particle therapy research in Europe, and she been the co-ordinator of the network since 2006. Dr. Dosanjh also co-chairs the International Conference on Translational Research in Radio-Oncology and Physics for Health (ICTR-PHE), which she co-founded with Professor Jacques Bernier, Genolier Cancer Centre.Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 25, 2017).

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1 online resource (viii, 21 pages) :color illustrations.

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English

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9780750314442

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616.0757

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Particles (Nuclear physics)
Medical physics.
Nuclear physics
Medical physics
Health Physics
Elementary Particles

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Manjit Dosanjh.

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