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  • Tuesday, 01 August 2017
  • 09:1 - 09:1
  • Duration: 4 mins
  • Publication date: 19 Apr 2018
  • Location: laboratory, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Daresbury Laboratory

About the session

STFC Daresbury Laboratory is renowned for its world leading scientific research in fields such as accelerator science, bio-medicine, physics, chemistry, materials, engineering and computational science. 

Particle accelerator research and development programme focusing on accelerator science and technology development. Daresbury Laboratory is home to the Hartree Centre,  Accelerator Science and Technology Centre (ASTeC), The Cockcroft Institute and STFC Technology. Activities in the centre include  research and development for future particle accelerators, contributions to major international facilities under construction and exciting prospects of technology developments for applications in energy, medical and security sectors. 

Keywords:
  • Daresbury
  • accelerator
  • beam therapy
  • cancer
  • cyclotron
  • dipoles
  • electron
  • engineers
  • magnets
  • medical linear accelerator
  • patient
  • proton
  • protons
  • radiation
  • radiotherapy
  • tumour
  • x-ray

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    Graeme Burt

    University of Strathclyde

  • KK

    Professor Karen Kirkby

    University of Manchester

  • ID

    Ian Derby

    Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Radiotherapy Engineer

  • CM

    Colin McDonagh

    Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Radiotherapy Engineer

  • PB

    Per Bergfjord

    Elekta AB, Head of Hardware Engineering

  • SA

    Shaun Atherton

    Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Radiotherpay Physics TS Manager

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