The technologies and scientific advances behind high-energy physics - through developments in accelerators, detectors and computing - have historically contributed to the field of medical and biomedical technologies.
Our Activities in Medical and Biomedical Technologies
Recent News items related to our Medtech activities
CERN know-how and technologies with potential or existing medical and biomedical applications
Extremely fast and low noise photon and electron counting possibilities, providing significant advances in photon sciences and electron spectroscopy.
Fast front-end readout electronics ...
An amplification technique for position detection of ionising radiation.
Gas electron multiplier
Competences
Knowhow derived from decades of experience in particle detector development applied to medical imaging. Substantial expertise in magnet design and computing for medical imaging.
Medical Imaging
Knowhow and experience derived from years of isotope production and particle detector development for nuclear medicine applications.
Nuclear Medicine
Knowhow and experience derived from decades of accelerator design, construction and operation. Application of expertise and know-how to innovative radiotherapy system designs.
Radiotherapy
Success stories of CERN-related medical and biomedical applications
During 2016, the construction of the 750 MHz Radio-Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) was successfully completed.
CERN patented Gas Electron Multiplier updated for use in hadron therapy and radiotherapy.
A new Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor, originally developed to upgrade the ALICE inner tracking system during the second long shutdown of LHC, is on its way to Bergen University for a very different application – Proton Computed Tomography (Proton CT).
Recent Press coverage of CERN medtech activities