http://accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch/tags/ictr-phe-2014 en http://accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch/content/latest-developments-medical-physics-research <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="/accelerating-news" style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="/sites/accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch/files/icons/new%20icons/acc%20new..png" style="width: 48px; height: 39px; float: left;" /></a><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14px;"><strong style="color: rgb(17, 102, 153); font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">  </strong></span><span style="color:#116699;"><strong>Latest developments in medical physics research </strong></span><br /><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14px;"><strong style="color: rgb(17, 102, 153); font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">  </strong></span><span class="acc-authors">by Livia Lapadatescu (CERN)</span></p> <p class="rtecenter" style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">                         <img alt="" src="/sites/accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch/files/pictures/ISSUE%209%20IMAGES/acc.%20latest%20developmets.jpg" style="width: 380px; height: 254px;" />                 <br /><em><span style="font-size:11px;">ICTR-PHE 2014 took place in the International Conference Centre in Geneva (CICG).<br /> Image credit: ICTR-PHE 2014.</span></em></p> <p><b>Researchers from around the world gathered in Geneva to discuss the latest developments in cancer diagnosis and treatment during <a href="http://ictr-phe14.web.cern.ch/ICTR-PHE14/" target="_blank">ICTR-PHE 2014</a> (International Conference on Translational Research in Radio-Oncology and Physics for Health in Europe), held between 10 and 14 February.</b></p> <p>The 5-day conference covered a variety of topics from radiobiology, nuclear medicine, detectors and imaging, to host and tumour immunity, radio-therapeutic control of tumours, and clinical trials in hadron therapy. The involvement of CERN in medical physics research was highlighted in the talk by Steve Myers, recently appointed Head of CERN’s Medical Application Programme, and in the public lecture by Ugo Amaldi: <a href="http://ictr-phe14.web.cern.ch/ictr-phe14/public_talk.html" target="_blank"> <em>Physics is beautiful and useful</em>.</a></p> <p>The development of compact and cost-effective accelerators for medical applications, the production of isotopes for research, and the establishment of BioLEIR at CERN were also addressed during the conference. Converting <a href="http://home.web.cern.ch/about/accelerators/low-energy-ion-ring" target="_blank">LEIR</a> (The Low Energy Ion Ring) into a biomedical experimental facility will help investigate the effect of different ions on cancer cells, test innovative particle detectors and perform accurate nuclear fragmentation studies. The ISOLDE facility will provide beams to produce radioisotopes for medical applications, in the framework of the CERN MEDICIS project.</p> <p>The need of uniting different disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and even computer science (which could help in analyzing large databases) to develop better treatment and diagnosis for cancer was highlighted throughout the conference. Rendez-vous in 2016 for the next edition of ICTR-PHE.</p> <p style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"><strong><em><a href="http://ictr-phe14.web.cern.ch/ictr-phe14/blog.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Read more &gt;&gt;</span></a></em></strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> </span></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/ictr-phe-2014" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">ICTR-PHE 2014</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/cancer-therapy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">cancer therapy</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/accelerators" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">accelerators</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/medical-applications" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">medical applications</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/issue-9" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">issue 9</a></div></div></div> Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:24:15 +0000 Margarita Synanidi 107 at http://accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch http://accelerating-news-arc.web.cern.ch/content/latest-developments-medical-physics-research#comments