Race to recreate Big Bang conditions is on again Nov 21, 2009
The Linac 2 (Linear Accelerator 2) is pictured at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva October 16, 2008. (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Files). (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Cat Brain-Based Computer: Scientists Perform Cat-Scale Cortical Simulations and Map the Human Brain Nov 19, 2009
This scientific tool, akin to a linear accelerator or an electron microscope, is a critical instrument used to test hypotheses of brain structure, dynamics and function. The simulation was performed using the cortical simulator on Lawrence Livermore National Lab's Dawn Blue Gene/P supercomputer with 147,456 CPUs and 144 terabytes of main memory. (Science Daily)
Science Begins At The World's Most Powerful X-ray Laser Nov 3, 2009
Over 40 years ago, the laboratory's two-mile linear accelerator, or linac, was built to study the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Now, decades later, this same machine has been revitalized for frontier research underway at the LCLS.. (Science Daily)
Kentucky approves $15 million in radiation projects Oct 24, 2009
State approval is required to operate megavoltage radiation equipment such as linear accelerators, which deliver high doses of radiation to tumors. Approval of megavoltage radiation equipment is based on criteria in the state s health plan, which limits the number of megavoltage radiation therapy programs to one program per 100,000 residents in a given area. (Louisville Business First, KY)
GCIC Organises Airport X-ray Scanner Training Oct 24, 2009
The scanner, which is based on the x-ray imaging technology, (THSCAN systems), adopts high-energy Electron Linear Accelerator and has performance detectors among other features. The course content under the direction of Mr. Cheng Sen, a training engineer, comprised theoretical and practical assessments in the areas of systems operation procedure and introduction to software operation. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Hospital rates increasing in new budget Oct 2, 2009
About $350,713 for the purchase of a new linear accelerator in the cancer center. Trustee Dr. Oscar Butler Jr. questioned why the purchase of a 40-foot mobile diagnostic unit van was deferred as a noncritical item. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
N.C. denies CHS plan for $9.2M center Sep 30, 2009
The multidisciplinary center will include a linear accelerator. The technology treats cancer with targeted, concentrated radiation. (Charlotte Business Journal, NC)
Cary Urology beats out UNC Hospitals, Carolina HealthCare for prostate-cancer center Sep 30, 2009
Cary Urology's multidisciplinary center will include a linear accelerator, the main prize sought by the competing health organizations. The technology treats cancer with targeted, concentrated radiation. (Raleigh Triangle Business Journal, NC)
PHOTO GALLERY: Cancer center prepares to open Sep 30, 2009
Wicked Local staff photo/Tom Gorman Dermott Keady, field service engineer for Varian Medical Systems, explains how the South Shore Hospital Cancer Center's new linear accelerator works. The center is among a handful of hospitals with this device that targets tumors. (Weymouth News, MA)
'A fantastic addition to the South Shore' Sep 30, 2009
" The South Shore Hospital Cancer Treatment Center is one of just a few hospitals with a linear accelerator. The linear accelerator maps cancer tumors using images from a CT scan, MRI, or X-ray, then delivers a high beam of radiation directly to the tumor with little or no damage to the surrounding healthy tissue. The center also has a CT simulator that creates scanned images allowing doctors to determine the size of a cancer tumor. The hospital's breast care center and a multi-specialty... (Weymouth News, MA)
PDA acquires stake in company Sep 23, 2009
"The common theme (between Positron and Acceloris) is that isotopes can be created using the linear accelerator we already use." Yano said Positron's primary business is nondestructive testing of mechanical equipment for the aerospace and power generation industries among others ... They will be well-paying jobs that, because of the need to be in proximity of a linear accelerator, carry with them little threat of leaving the Gate City. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Grand opening for hospital cancer center planned Sep 23, 2009
A linear accelerator on the lower level of the facility will be used to destroy cancer cells with a prescribed radiation beam. The linear accelerator maps cancer tumors, said hospital spokesman Sarah Darcy. (Braintree Forum, MA)
Nuclear test ban back on the table Sep 22, 2009
Studies of ageing nuclear materials and computer simulations have shown that the stockpile is reliable and can remain so for decades to come without testing, according to Sidney Drell, a physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center of the National Accelerator Laboratory in California. That doesn t mean that technical objections won t be raised this time around. (Scientific American)
State analyst rejects MWH's cancer center plan Sep 19, 2009
The new cancer center would include a linear accelerator, a machine that delivers high-energy X-rays to cancerous tumors ... The state insists that a linear accelerator do at least 8,000 treatments a year before it will consider approving a new one ... The two linear accelerators at the Cancer Center of Virginia did about 7,500 treatments each last year. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Moses Cones TomoTherapy technology the first in the state Sep 19, 2009
The TomoTherapy machine replaces a linear accelerator that had been in use for about seven years, one of four that Moses Cone already held a state license for ... Brandin Wrisley, president of Sterling, said his crews worked two shifts installing the machine in a room with six-foot-thick concrete walls, and worked under time constraints to avoid disrupting treatments going on at three other linear accelerators. (Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area)
Health care competition heats up MediCorp Health System defends its cancer center plan against critics from HCA Sep 12, 2009
"MediCorp does not need or merit a third linear accelerator," said Tim Tobin, CEO of HCA's Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center, now under construction. "We recommend denial of MediCorp's request so that we can expand cancer services at Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center in the future, once we're open." Tobin added. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
HCA working to block cancer center at MWH The region's two hospital companies are scuffling over a plan to build a new cancer center beside Mary Washington Hospital Sep 10, 2009
Remley ruled in January that the Fredericksburg area did not need two more linear accelerators, the machines used to deliver radiation to cancerous tumors. State guidelines require that a linear accelerator do a minimum of 8,000 treatments a year before another will be approved. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Cancer Treatment Center breaks ground
on $8.7 million project Sep 3, 2009
Upon completion, the 15,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility will include: An all new, $3 million Linear Accelerator (to replace the current machine), as well as new treatment planning equipment to compliment the new accelerator. In addition, patients will find more parking; a new, southern-facing front entrance; larger waiting rooms and restrooms; a coat and vending area; a separate Positron Emission Tomography/ Computerized Tomography (PET/CT) patient area; floor scales; and larger... (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
As patient load increases, Mabry Center eyes multimillion-dollar expansion Sep 1, 2009
5 million linear accelerator for cancer treatment will also be a part of the upgrade ... "Our linear accelerator, though adequate in terms of it still functioning properly, is one of the oldest in the country," Williams said. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Varian Medical Systems Adds RapidArc(R) and Image Guidance to New Low Energy Treatment Platform for Radiation Therapy in International Cancer Clinics Aug 31, 2009
The UNIQUE* platform's low energy medical linear accelerator incorporates Varian's proven technologies for reliable and consistent dose control, delivery, and beam shaping, into an elegant machine with patient friendly design that is small enough to fit into almost all existing treatment bunkers. The system is ideally equipped for treating cancers of the head and neck, breast, cervix and prostate, which make up the majority of cases in most areas of the world. (PR Newswire)
Obituaries in the news Aug 25, 2009
The Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at LANSCE credits Rosen with leading the way in developing the world's most powerful linear accelerator, culminating in construction of the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility, known today as the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, or LANSCE.. Rosen directed the center until 1986. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Barnes-Jewish West adds Washington U. GI doctors Aug 22, 2009
This includes the 2008 opening of a new facility at Barnes-Jewish West, the installation of a linear accelerator for radiation oncology services and increased radiology and pediatric services. Now the West County hospital s digestive health services also are getting a boost with the addition of five Washington University interventional GI doctors. (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)
Vanquishing infinity Aug 18, 2009
Now, Zvi Bern, John Carrasco, and Henrik Johanssen at UCLA, Lance Dixon at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and Radu Roiban at Pennsylvania State University have found a way to carry out a new set of gravity calculations with the help of an older theory that has been known since the 1980s to be finite. Their new results are reported in Physical Review Letters () and highlighted in a commentary by Hermann Nicolai at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, in... (EurekAlert!)
Study Finds Earliest Black Holes Born Starving Aug 16, 2009
The Kavli Institute is at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif. Hungry, hungry black holes. (Fox News)
First black holes starved at birth Aug 15, 2009
The Kavli Institute is at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif. Hungry, hungry black holesIn the simulated young universe, clouds of gas condensed to form the first stars. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Jet-propelled Imaging For An Ultrafast Light Source Aug 14, 2009
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) will soon begin operation at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, using energetic electrons from a linear accelerator to produce coherent x-rays with an instrument called a free electron laser (FEL). The x-rays will be delivered 120 times a second in pulses only a tenth of a trillionth of a second long about the time it takes light to travel the width of a human hair. (Science Daily)
Cancer center proposed at MWH The center would be located at the traffic circle at the southern end of the hospital campus, off Cowan Boulevard. Aug 13, 2009
MediCorp proposes to place a linear accelerator and a CT simulator there ... When the state rejected the two proposals in January, it said that the two linear accelerators at the Cancer Center were not busy enough to justify adding a third. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Modern X-ray technology: Another look inside Jul 31, 2009
The new machine will be attached to a linear accelerator, a device used for radiation therapy, to allow simultaneous imaging and treatment, according to Sha Chang, who will lead the team that tests it. Conventional CT scans are used to work out the shape of the place where a dose of radiation needs to be concentrated in order to attack a tumour without damaging nearby healthy tissue. (The Economist)
FBI agents arrest former SLAC employee Jul 29, 2009
A former employee of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center was arrested Monday for allegedly destroying $500,000 worth of protein crystal samples at the lab, the FBI announced. Silvya Oommachen, 32, is accused of removing 42 cassettes, each containing 96 separate crystal samples, from cryogenic containers and placing them on a lab table, according to a complaint filed by FBI Special Agent Matthew Quick. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Phyllis Fleming, 84; pioneer among women in physics Jul 16, 2009
graduated in 1977 and in 2007 became director of the US Department of Energy s Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. I would not be a physicist if it were not for Phyllis Fleming, said Drell, who also served as Fleming s lab instructor at Wellesley and taught physics at Cornell. (Boston Globe)
'Copernicium' Proposed As Name For Newly Discovered Element 112 Jul 16, 2009
Copernicium' Proposed As Name For Newly Discovered Element 112. Copernicium' Proposed As Name For Newly Discovered Element 112. (Science Daily)
Rapid radiation Jul 7, 2009
During visits, they must lie perfectly still inside a linear accelerator that directs beams of radiation to zap tumors. The treatment typically takes about 20 minutes plus time for radiation therapists to set up everything. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Documentary of a maverick Jul 4, 2009
In 1963-66, he represented the first lawsuit against leveling San Bruno Mountain to fill in the San Francisco Bay and also fought a gargantuan battle against PGthe Atomic Energy Commission, which wanted to install huge energy towers through residents' private property in Woodside for the new Stanford Linear Accelerator. "It was a colossal experience. It was one guy taking on the establishment: the federal government, and PGid Mary Davey, Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District board member and... (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Kornberg Associates | Architects Selected to Develop Design for New Stanford University Imaging Center Jun 29, 2009
The firm has worked with Stanford University since 1980 and has completed 20 projects over the past 30 years, one of which is the two-story, 32,000 square-foot office building for the Stanford Linear Accelerator. They are also working on the new three-story 35,000 square-foot Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). (PR Newswire)
Energy Secretary Steven Chu to address SLAC Jun 26, 2009
Chu will speak to Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) scientists in Menlo Park on Friday, June 26 ... SLAC is a multipurpose laboratory for astrophysics, photon science, accelerator and particle physics research and is home to a two-mile linear accelerator -- the longest in the world. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
South Shore Hospital cancer center nears completion Jun 1, 2009
What this equipment does is to prepare you for your treatment in the linear accelerator, Rodak said. A linear accelerator destroys cancer cells with a radiation beam that is prescribed by a doctor. (Weymouth News, MA)
Radiation therapists miss out May 21, 2009
But the prospect of long-term, secure employment - based on NSW Government projections of staff needed for planned linear accelerator machines - also figured large in the 23-year-old's thinking ... Andrew Penman, the council's CEO, said the total number of linear accelerator machines needed to increase from 42 to 76 by 2015, because of rising demand as the population ages. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Cancer treatment shock - third miss out: study May 20, 2009
The State Government should immediately start paying private hospitals to treat public patients in areas where there was a shortage of services, and should offer more realistic expenses payments to people forced to travel long distances to reach the nearest linear accelerator radiation facility, Dr Penman said ... The total number of linear accelerator machines needed to increase from 42 at present to 76 by 2015 to provide radiation therapy for people who already needed it and to cope with a... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
> read more May 16, 2009
Comparing the recent Fermi data with the PAMELA results, Elliott Bloom (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) of the Fermi science team says, If you take both of these together, the implication is that there seems to be a relatively close-by source to generate the extra high-speed electrons and positrons. Even if the excesses of particles are confirmed, they may very well be due to astrophysical sources such as the pulsar in this artist's view rather than dark matter. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Mass General and North Shore partner in Danvers May 15, 2009
In addition, the three linear accelerator rooms are actually built into the slope of the ground, with 6-foot thick concrete walls, 6 1/2-foot thick ceilings, and 12,000-pound doors to ensure the radiation does not escape into the environment, said Garriepy. The fire emergency road, too, will be built in an environmentally sensitive way, with grass pavers instead of concrete that can withstand the traction of a fire truck, Garriepy said. (Danvers Herald, MA)
Cancer facilities to aid rural residents May 14, 2009
"As a rule you need 250,000 people for one linear accelerator, and best practice is to have two units, in case one breaks down, so states like South Australia and Western Australia just don't have the population density to justify it," Professor Olver said. Each region will be linked to Sydney's new Lifehouse cancer centre or Parkville in Melbourne, which will provide state-of-the-art cancer treatment for rare and complex cancers. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
10 year anniversary: Local cancer center evolving, growing May 10, 2009
As the cancer center celebrates its first decade, doctors know an expansion is needed for a third linear accelerator, more medical oncology space and more education and support services. Planning has begun. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Break Ground for New Cancer Center at St. John's Mercy May 2, 2009
Advanced technologies at the cancer center will include a linear accelerator, which delivers a uniform dose of high-energy X-ray through a beam that can be adjusted to the size of the patient's tumor. The X-rays can treat cancer cells in the tumor while sparing surrounding healthy tissue. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
> Business Profile: Architect firm Folio focuses on R&D Apr 30, 2009
The company is now working on tenant improvements to a 1960s building at the Pulse Labs for Biology and Physics Research at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Other past clients include Novo Nordisk Delivery Technologies Inc. in Hayward and Alza Corp. in Mountain View, which was purchased by Johnson & Johnson. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Western-Southern donates to Barrett center Apr 28, 2009
A new dual-purpose linear accelerator for treating superficial cancers, like shallow skin cancers. A next-generation intensity modulated radiation therapy treatment planning system that can identify soft tissues and vascular connections around tumors. (Cincinnati Business Courier, OH)
Joseph Demer: In Plane Sight Apr 3, 2009
In 8th grade around the time of the he got the idea to try building an electromagnetic linear accelerator (something akin to a rail gun that would use electromagnetism to accelerate projectiles to high speeds) based on the "far-fetched idea" that since lunar gravity is lower than terrestrial gravity, it might conceivably be more efficient to extract minerals from the moon and launch them into space to build space stations there than to lob such materials from Earth. Ideally, the launching... (Scientific American)
Stanford Linear gets $8M federal funds Apr 3, 2009
SLAC is home to the world s longest linear accelerator, at two miles. Originally a particle physics research center, the Menlo Park site is now a multipurpose laboratory for astrophysics, photon science, accelerator and particle physics research. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Doc who lost arm to cancer now helps others Mar 30, 2009
from a linear accelerator. Patel lost his right arm to bone cancer at the age of 13, but the experience turned into a motivating force becoming an award-winning medical student atthe University of Alabama at Birminghamand now a radiation oncologist, helping others try to overcome the same obstacles he faced 20 years ago. (MSNBC -- Health)
Why Is There More Matter Than Antimatter In The Natural World? Mar 28, 2009
3, 2004) Physicists conducting the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), a Department of Energy laboratory operated by Stanford University, announced exciting new results ... 19, 2001) Two new accelerators, one at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in Palo Alto and another in Japan, have begun to yield results that could reveal exactly how the symmetry between matter and. (Science Daily)
SLAC to get $68.3M in federal recovery funds Mar 24, 2009
3M in federal recovery funds Stanford Linear Accelerator Center will purchase equipment. ADVERTISEMENT. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Universities seek stimulus funds Mar 5, 2009
The university is closing its linear accelerator facility, which has researched food safety through irradiation. It also is studying closing part or all of the university during holidays and semester breaks. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
