{"id":36084,"date":"2017-04-13T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/synopsis-a-room-sized-linear-accelerator-for-proton-therapy"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:29:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:29:05","slug":"synopsis-a-room-sized-linear-accelerator-for-proton-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/synopsis-a-room-sized-linear-accelerator-for-proton-therapy","title":{"rendered":"Synopsis: A Room-Sized Linear Accelerator for Proton Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synopsis-a-room-sized-linear-accelerator-for-proton-therapy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A proton beam can kill cancer cells, and the accelerators used for treatment are always the circular kind. Linear accelerators (\u201clinacs\u201d) allow more control of the beam; for example, the energy can be varied rapidly to match a patient\u2019s breathing. But linacs take up a lot of space. Now researchers propose a design that could fit in a room 10 m x 20 m, potentially making linacs practical for patient therapy. Research from CERN.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/synopsis-for\/10.1103\/PhysRevAccelBeams.20.040101\">https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/synopsis-for\/10.1103\/PhysRevAccelBeams.20.040101<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proton beam can kill cancer cells, and the accelerators used for treatment are always the circular kind. Linear accelerators (\u201clinacs\u201d) allow more control of the beam; for example, the energy can be varied rapidly to match a patient\u2019s breathing. But linacs take up a lot of space. Now researchers propose a design that could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56756,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36084\/revisions\/56756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}