Cyclotron – it sounds like a character from a science fiction film. It’s actually a particle accelerator, a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to very high speeds and ...

If you have ever had a PET scan at a hospital or heard about radiation treatment for cancer or brain tumours, there's a good chance a cyclotron was involved. But what is a cyclotron and how is it used ...

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Medical officials at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's are celebrating the arrival of a brand new cyclotron. Dr. Peter Hollett, Eastern Health's clinical chief of nuclear medicine, says the new ...

The country’s biggest medical cyclotron, Cyclone 30, that can produce radioisotopes for diagnosis and treatment of cancer at one-third the existing cost, has started functioning at the Variable Energy ...

A 19-axle truck carries the 220-ton cyclotron, a machine used in cancer treatment, to Penn's Roberts Proton Therapy Center yesterday morning. After a 3,700-mile trans-Atlantic journey and a police ...