Healthcare

The technologies behind high-energy physics have historically contributed to healthcare.

How can CERN improve healthcare?

The technologies and scientific advances behind high-energy physics - through developments in accelerators, detectors and computing - have historically contributed to healthcare.

CERN contributes to medical innovation through its cutting-edge technologies, competences and know-how: these are being used in areas related to medical diagnostics and imaging, therapy, dosimetry, as well as digital technologies for health applications.

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NIMMS

CERN’s Next Ion Medical Machine Study and new European projects are building on existing hadron-therapy research to treat cancer

FLASH

Learn more about FLASH, an innovative electron radiotherapy technology

Digital Technology for Health

From physics simulation tools to biomedical applications

CERN-MEDICIS facility

This unique facility produces unconventional radioisotopes with the right properties to enhance the precision of both patient imaging and treatment

Medipix

A family of pixel detector read-out chips for particle imaging and detection developed by the Medipix Collaborations with multiple medical applications