Linear accelerators have become an indispensable component in the advancement of particle therapy, offering precise control over the delivery of ionising radiation for cancer treatment. The field ...

Mercy caregivers debuted a new linear accelerator at Mercy Cancer Center – Ada, celebrating the arrival of cutting-edge radiation therapy with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and blessing. The LINAC aims ra ...

POCATELLO — The Portneuf Cancer Center has further modernized its facility after acquiring a new state-of-the-art linear accelerator machine called a Varian TrueBeam that helps doctors deliver high ...

Over the next several years, The University of Vermont Health Network will install six new state-of-the-art linear accelerators for improved radiation treatments to combat cancer at Central Vermont ...

Cancer patients can once again avail themselves of radiation therapy at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) ...

Radiation therapy techniques have been used for more than a century to treat cancers. Physicists in the Radiation Detector and Imaging group and associated with the Biomedical Research & Innovation ...

A wedge-shaped device could make the particle accelerators used for proton therapies in medicine an even more effective tool for treating cancer. Beams of protons can be used to kill tumour cells. In ...

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Particle accelerators are usually huge structures—think of the 3.2-km-long SLAC National Accelerator Lab in Stanford, California. But scientists have been hard at work trying to shrink these ...