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.
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The Medipix2 ASIC is a high spatial, high contrast resolving CMOS pixel read-out chip working in single photon counting mode.
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Medipix3 is a CMOS pixel detector readout chip designed to be connected to a segmented semiconductor sensor. In addition to counting every particle hitting the pixels, it permits colour imaging and dead time free operation.
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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).
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