Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped with the wires needed to control the instruments inside. A beam of particles passes through the ...

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 ...

Linear accelerators (linacs) are pivotal instruments that utilise high-power radio frequency (RF) fields to accelerate charged particles for applications ranging from fundamental physics research to ...

A new, state of the art Varian TrueBeam linear accelerator is now treating patients at Exeter Hospital's Center for Cancer Care. The linear accelerator is a highly sophisticated system designed to ...

Wolfgang “Pief” Panofsky, the nuclear physicist and brilliant administrator who was the driving force for the creation of Stanford University’s 2-mile-long linear electron accelerator, made crucial ...

This article profiles staffing levels for all allied health professionals in Queensland Public Health cancer care services to determine whether linear accelerator hours per clinical day are a ...