English dictionary of cancer terms . 2015.
linear accelerator — A machine that uses electricity to form a stream of fast moving subatomic particles. This creates high energy radiation that may be used to treat cancer. Also called linac, MeV linear accelerator, and mega voltage linear accelerator … English dictionary of cancer terms
mega-voltage linear accelerator — MeV linear accelerator. A machine that uses electricity to form a stream of fast moving subatomic particles. This creates high energy radiation that may be used to treat cancer. Also called MeV linear accelerator, linear accelerator, and linac … English dictionary of cancer terms
Universal Linear Accelerator — Originalteil des 120 Meter langen UNILAC im Ausstellungsraum des GSI UNILAC (Universal Linear Accelerator) ist die Bezeichnung eines Beschleunigers für Schwerionen am GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt. Mit Hilfe des… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Universal linear accelerator — The Universal Linear Accelerator is a heavy ion linac based at the Heavy Ion Research Centre (GSI) near Darmstadt, Germany. It can provide beams of accelerated ions of elements from Carbon to Uranium with energies up to 20 MeV / u. The UNILAC is… … Wikipedia
Linear particle accelerator — A linear particle accelerator (also called a linac) is an electrical device for the acceleration of subatomic particles. This sort of particle accelerator has many applications, from the generation of X rays in a hospital environment, to an… … Wikipedia
particle accelerator — accelerator (def. 7). [1945 50] * * * Device that accelerates a beam of fast moving, electrically charged atoms (ions) or subatomic particles. Accelerators are used to study the structure of atomic nuclei (see atom) and the nature of subatomic… … Universalium
Particle accelerator — Atom smasher redirects here. For other uses, see Atom smasher (disambiguation). A 1960s single stage 2 MeV linear Van de Graaff accelerator, here opened for maintenance A particle accelerator[1] is a device that uses electromagnetic fields to… … Wikipedia
Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory — The Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory (SAL) was a linear accelerator facility on the University of Saskatchewan campus in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The facility was constructed in 1961 at a cost of $1.7M. SAL provided support for… … Wikipedia
Dielectric wall accelerator — The Dielectric Wall Accelerator (DWA) is a new compact particle accelerator designed at the Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS), managed Lawrence Livermore National Lab LLNL, a DOE National lab. It has been turned over to the UC… … Wikipedia
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider — Hadron colliders Caption=The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Some of the superconducting magnets were manufactured by Northrop Grumman Corp. at Bethpage, New York. Note especially the second, independent ring… … Wikipedia
