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    A linear particle accelerator (often shortened to linac) is a type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged subatomic particles or ions to a high...
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    facility. The first CERN Linac, operating from 1958 until 1992 Linac 2, operating from 1978 to 2018, was used to accelerate protons Linac 3, currently (as of...
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    charts. A portion of the original linear accelerator is now part of the Linac Coherent Light Source. The Stanford Linear Collider was a linear accelerator...
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    entrance of the linear accelerator (linac). The next stage of acceleration is a linear particle accelerator (linac). This stage consists of two segments...
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    than 2 millimetres The movements of the linear particle accelerator (or linac) are threefold: the gantry rotates (like a big crane arm) the collimator...
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  • An energy recovery linac (ERL) is a type of linear particle accelerator that provides a beam of electrons used to produce x-rays by synchrotron radiation...
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    The Universal Linear Accelerator (UNILAC) is a heavy ion linac based at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany. It can...
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    machine moves a radiation source around a patient. A linear accelerator (linac) is built into the top part of the gantry in the photo at the right. The...
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    Linear accelerators ("linacs"). The first use of a linac for medical radiotherapy was in 1953. Commercially available medical linacs produce X-rays and electrons...
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    originally. KEK e+/e- Linac: A linear accelerator complex used to inject 8.0 GeV electrons and 3.5 GeV positrons to KEKB. The linac also provides 2.5 GeV...
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    The Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) is a U.S. Department of Energy scientific user facility at Argonne National Laboratory. ATLAS is the...
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  • Combined Experiments (ALICE), or Energy Recovery Linac Prototype (ERLP) is a 35MeV energy recovery linac test facility at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire...
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    Linac (French pronunciation: [linak]) is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. Communes of the Lot department "RĂ©pertoire national...
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    1956. Linac units quickly became favored devices for conventional fractionated radiotherapy but it lasted until the 1980s before dedicated Linac radiosurgery...
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    LINAC 2 linear accelerator injector was decommissioned and replaced by a new injector accelerator, the LINAC4. The original linear accelerator LINAC 1...
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    injected into the Proton Synchrotron (PS). Before the PSB was built in 1972, Linac 1 injected directly into the Proton Synchrotron, but the increased injection...
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    and built in 1952. Large synchrotrons usually have a linear accelerator (linac) to give the particles an initial acceleration, and a lower energy synchrotron...
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    Collaboration. There are two basic shapes of accelerators. Linear accelerators ("linacs") accelerate elementary particles along a straight path. Circular accelerators...
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  • Versa HD linear accelerator (linac), launched in 2013. Elekta Unity MR-Linac, the first high field (1.5 Tesla) MR-Linac combines magnetic resonance imaging...
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  • the start of the linac, using several 'bunching' cavities. The linac can accelerate a beam once every second. Further along the linac quadrupole magnets...
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    external beam radiotherapy (often referred to as a linear accelerator or linac, their main component), a linear accelerator generates the radiation beam...
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    surgery and critical care, and operates a 20-bed oncology wing with a medical linac. It also operates a coronary artery disease care unit, intensive therapy...
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    electrons from a linear electron beam accelerator (or Linac, a type of particle accelerator). Inside the Linac, electrons are focused and accelerated to form...
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    Palo Alto, California. Their medical devices include linear accelerators (LINACs) and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions with radiotherapy...
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  • Medical physics of radiation therapy can involve work such as dosimetry, linac quality assurance, and brachytherapy. Medical physics of diagnostic and...
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    of different linear accelerator (linac) forms, and is not installed in a region with large magnetic fields. The linac is placed near the edge of the gap...
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    light in a relatively small radius orbit. In a linear particle accelerator (linac), particles are accelerated in a straight line with a target of interest...
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    experiments until 2008. Since then the linear accelerator is being used for the Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser as well as advanced accelerator design...
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    December 1, 1968, saw the breaking of ground for the linear accelerator (linac). The construction of the Main Accelerator Enclosure began on October 3...
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  • December 2011). "Siemens to end linac sales". DOTmed. Keen, Cynthia E (23 December 2011). "Siemens explains rationale for linac exit". AuntMinnie.com. Siemens...
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