To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The medical linear accelerator, commonly known as LINAC ...
A linear accelerator at UCHealth's Memorial North Hospital. The machine is used to treat cancer by shooting a beam of high energy radiation at tumors in a bid to kill the malignant cells (Courtesy, ...
Whenever SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's linear accelerator is on, packs of around a billion electrons each travel together at nearly the speed of light through metal piping. These electron ...