General Medical Applications

CERN develops cutting-edge technologies in a wide range of domains and has significant experience in applying this know-how to medical applications.
Design and characterization of high spatial resolution, fast timing detectors, uses in hadron therapy and medical imaging.
Decades of experience in simulation, design, construction and operation of accelerators. Bespoke hardware and software for acceleration, diagnostics, beam control and monitoring.
Significant experience in ML, data storage and analysis. Early adopters of neural network techniques and cloud-based data analysis. Expertise in simulations of particle transport and interactions with matter.
CERN has applied its core expertise to push the boundaries of hadron therapy, contributing to the design and construction of two out of the four dual ion centres in Europe.
On-site production of isotopes, with a unique capability to produce unconventional medical radioisotopes.
Over 50 years of experience in development of PET technologies.
Hybrid pixel detector technology was developed for particle tracking at CERN and has enabled high resolution, color X-ray CT imaging.
Particle physicists were among the first to use machine learning and CERN has significant expertise in big data storage, processing and analytics.

1977: First PET image taken at CERN.
1980’s: Start of medical accelerator development at CERN.
2002: CERN starts using grid computing for medical applications.
2018: First 3D colour X-ray image of the living human body taken by MARS Bioimaging, using Medipix technology.

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