How particle physics can save your life
From Symmetry Magazine, 5 November 2013
The same particle-physics technology used to understand the universe is also used to improve health and medicine. Accelerators and detectors play an important role in diagnosing disease, shrinking tumors and sterilizing medical equipment. Large-scale computing makes it possible to determine which potential new drugs are most likely to work before starting large-scale human trials. And particle-physics-trained scientists serve as medical physicists, making sure it all works as planned. Click here to learn more on the topics listed below:
- Sterilizing instruments and supplies
- Distributed and grid computing
- Simulation
- Semiconductors
- Particle-physics-trained staff
- PET
- MRI
- Cancer treatment
>> On this website you can also find complementary information on these applications of accelerators, notably in the pages 'Health and Medicine' and 'Industrial applications'.
ctanguy, 2013-11-05 00:00:00
