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Follow on Google News | Can Medical Cyclotron be an aid to cancer? Director VECC Kolkata answersIn a seminar conducted by ISA students’ Chapter of Heritage Institute of Technology , in association with Indian Vacuum Society on 24th April, Dr. R. K. Bhandari, Director, VECC, speaks about Medical Cyclotron for a cure to cancer. Read further
By: www.heritageit.edu “From atmosphere to 1 millibar, Vacuum technology is used in mechanical handling, vacuum packing and from 10 to the power of minus 4 to 10 to the power of minus 6, it is used in cryogenics, electrical insulation, X-ray tubes and many more,” said Dr. Bhandari. Discussing on the utility of Vacuum technology on particle accelerators through a presentation, Dr. Bhandari said that unless there is vacuum in accelerator, the particles cannot be charged to hit the atoms so as to verify what is there in the atoms. “Vacuum technology is useful to charge high velocity particle so that it can hit the atoms to generate radiation through beams. Studying the patterns of the beams we can detect and verify the atoms,” said Dr. Bhandari. Giving the example of Crockcraft-Walton accelerator installation at Cavendish Lab in Cambridge, Dr. Bhandari spoke about the origination of particle accelerators which now came a long way. Then he also told about the Large Hardon Collidor at CERN which is the largest accelerator in the world. This had been created to produce a particle called Higgs Buson. This accelerator consists of 9300 magnets and it is measuring to the extent of 27 km tunnel which is embedded 50 mts app. below the ground. Here two beams of protons and heavy ions are circulating in opposite directions. “These accelerators are used for cancer treatments, generating radio-isotopes for medical diagnostics, food preservation, material modification, cargo inspection and many more. In future it would be used for nuclear waste transformation” “We constructed Super Conducting Cyclotron which is 7th in the world,” said Dr. Bhandari. Then he spoke about Medical Cyclotron at Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre in Kolkata. This cyclotron will be generating radio-isotopes known as Thelium which will help to cure heart diseases. Apart from this, it will generate Gallium (Radio-Isotopes) The seminar was also contributed by Scientist Gautam Pal, from Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), also a member of Indian Vacuum Society, Scientist D.L. Bandyapadhyay, Ex- VECC, and member of Indian Vacuum Society, Prof. A.K.Ghoshal, Prof., Jadavpur University and Member of Indian Vacuum Society, Mr. Probir Roy, Executive Director, Heritage Institute, Dr. Pranay Chaudhuri, Principal, Heritage Institute, Prof. B.B. Poira, Director, Heritage Institute, Prof. Arabinda Kr. Pal, HOD, Department of Applied Electronics, Heritage, Prof. Arun K. Ray, Heritage and Prof. Sreeparna Dasgupta, Heritage. End
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