Brookhaven-designed accelerator has the potential to increase cure rates in cancer treatment while minimizing radiation dose and damage to healthy tissue Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's ...

UPTON, NY — As part of an effort to make high-precision particle cancer therapy accessible to more patients, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has ...

Protonica, an EPFL and CSEM spin-off has developed a new imaging and detection technology that aims to make proton therapy - ...

Recent technologic developments in the fields of accelerator engineering, treatment planning, beam delivery, and tumor visualization have stimulated the process of transferring particle radiation ...

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 ...

Proton beam therapy, the most common form of heavy-particle radiation therapy, is not a new invention, but it has gained considerable public attention because of the high cost of installing and ...

A new 102,000-sf outpatient cancer treatment facility in San Diego, Calif., will include space for a one-proton particle beam accelerator cyclotron to treat malignant tumors. Designed and built by a ...

The Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group – North America annual conference is coming to Seattle October 28 - 30. PTCOG-NA is a non-profit organization for experts and thought-leaders in protons, ...

IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A., EURONEXT), the world leader in particle accelerator technology and leading provider of proton therapy solutions for the treatment of cancer, today announced that it ...

Particle accelerators are often framed as exotic machines built only to chase obscure particles, but they are really precision tools that use electric fields and magnets to steer tiny beams of matter ...

The nation's first and only proton therapy center to treat patients exclusively with pencil-beam scanning is reporting exceptional results in delivering cancer treatment since opening for patient care ...