Category: Societal Applications
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Detecting Marine Plastic Pollution with Edge AI Technology
Around eight to ten million tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean each year. For context, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the largest Egyptian pyramid, weighs approximately six million tonnes.
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Accelerating Innovation Through Partnerships
“2024 marked CERN’s 70th anniversary, giving CERN Member and Associate Member States and other stakeholders an opportunity to reflect upon the Organization’s achievements to date
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Big plans for Europe’s particle therapy scene!
In the late 1990’s CERN launched the Proton-Ion Medical Machine Study (PIMMS), a collaboration between CERN, TERA, and Med-Austron, aimed at designing synchrotron accelerators for both light-ion and proton therapy. The program led to the construction of two centres: CNAO in Pavia, Italy, and Med-Austron in Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
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Rolf Kind and CERN establish strategic coopera7on in fusion technology research
A dream of mankind… unlimited energy without harming the environment. The team of Rolf Kind GmbH, based in the small town of Lindlar, around 40 km east of Cologne / Germany, is working hard every day to make this dream come true in the hopefully not too distant future.
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The Michelin Chefs of Radionuclides!
How difficult to extract radionuclides are produced at CERN-MEDICIS By Amedeo Habsburg Did you know that 80% of restaurants fail within their first 5 years of operation? Well, the worlds of radionuclideproduction and restauration are both full of high pressure, hot spaces, and little margin for failure. This being said, with talent and a little luck,…
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Compact GaToroid – Further Developments in Streamlined Particle Therapy Gantries By: Amedeo Habsburg
Compact GaToroid – Further Developments in Streamlined Particle Therapy Gantries By Amedeo Habsburg As this newsletter has highlighted over the past year, interest in particle therapy is growing rapidly. You may remember our first article concerning the GaToroid gantry and its first demonstrator magnet. Well, the innovative team behind the technology has continued to push…
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Introducing STELLA
Shoot for the Stars and you may just find a Radiotherapy Facility By Amedeo Habsburg In 2020, of the 19.3 million new cancer cases diagnosed worldwide, nearly 70% of cancer deaths occurred in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMICs) (Data source: GLOBOSCAN 2020). One of the technologies which can greatly reduce this number is radiotherapy LINACs (RT). Unfortunately, in LMICs they are…
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CAFEIN expanding its support to healthcare with yet another EU project: UMBRELLA!
How to manage strokes patients with AI and federated learning. 31st October 2024 Last quarter, this newsletter introduced CERN’s CAFEIN platform. No, CAFEIN is not a new CERN coffee delivery app, but more importantly, an AI platform enabling the training of AI models without sharing personal data. Its biggest purpose is to fundamentally enhance the…
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Is Helium the next game-changer in cancer therapy?
The NIMMS collaboration’s HeLICS technology and the helium therapy in Europe. By Amedeo Habsburg In past years, particle therapy has been employed globally as an effective cancer treatment. Currently, several facilities use carbon ions and protons to irradiate patients. However, did you know that the treatment was first studied using different ions, such as helium, carbon, neon…
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HITRIplus at PTCOG Singapore – Building bridges for the future of European ion therapy
HITRIplus at PTCOG Singapore – Building bridges for the future of European ion therapy How the HITRIplus project is reaching out to industry and paving a way to market for its technologies This June the HITRIplus Industry Relations Team (CERN, GSI and INFN), were present at the 62nd Annual Particle Therapy Conference (PTCOG) in Singapore. The outreach activities aimed to…