News tagged with proton beam
An Advance in Superconducting Magnet Technology Opens the Door for More Powerful Colliders
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Preparing for as much as a 10-fold increase in the Large Hadron Collider's luminosity within the next decade, U.S. scientists and engineers have demonstrated a powerful magnet based on an ...
City Tech physicist thinks small and big with CERN Large Hadron Collider research
Dec 11, 2009 |
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New York City College of Technology Physics Professor Giovanni Ossola thinks both small and big. He is currently developing a new tool that will lead to more precise computations involving the actions of particles (the smallest ...
St. Jude and UF Proton Therapy Institute to begin proton therapy clinical trial
Nov 09, 2009 |
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute have formed a collaboration to provide proton therapy for St. Jude patients. The announcement follows the approval of the first ...
Adding proton therapy 'boost' to X-ray radiation therapy reduces prostate cancer recurrences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Men who receive a "boost" of proton therapy after receiving a standard course of X-ray radiation therapy have fewer recurrences of their prostate cancer compared to men who did not receive the extra dose of proton radiation, ...
Proton therapy is well-tolerated in prostate cancer patients
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Proton beam therapy can be safely delivered to men with prostate cancer and has minimal urinary and rectal side effects, according to a study presented November 2, 2009, at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's 51st ...
Spallation Neutron Source sees first target replacement
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Having outlasted all expectations of its service life, the original mercury target of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), the Department of Energy Office of Science's record-setting neutron science facility ...
Proton therapy and concurrent chemotherapy may reduce bone marrow toxicity in advanced lung cancer
Nov 13, 2008 |
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Patients treated for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer who receive chemotherapy and proton beam therapy have fewer instances of bone marrow toxicity than patients who receive the standard treatment of intensity-modulated ...
