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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An interface between a detector vessel and a readout structure for an avalanche particle detector, in particular for a MicroPattern Gas Detector.
Resistive MicroMegas
A device enabling maintenance on an Radio Frequency waveguide system while keeping part of it under vacuum.
RF Waveguide Vacuum Valve
ROOT is a general-purpose framework that provides an object oriented set of tools with all the functionality needed to handle and analyze large amounts of data in an extremely efficient way.
ROOT
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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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