[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Seminar today at 14:00

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Date/Time: Tue 2008-01-22 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Dean Chapman and Tomasz Wysokinski (University of Saskatchewan & Canadian Light Source)

Title:     The Biomedical Imaging and Therapy Beamline at the Canadian Light Source

Abstract: A synchrotron biomedical research facility is being constructed at the Canadian Light Source in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.  The Biomedical Imaging and Therapy (BMIT) facility will provide high intensity, high x-ray energy light for a wide variety of imaging and therapy programs.  This facility is now in the construction phase with some initial operations in the summer of this year (2008).
The BMIT facility will have two beamline complexes; an insertion device source beamline at which the bulk of the imaging and therapy research on humans, animals, and plants will be carried out, and an ancillary bend magnet source beamline which will serve as a proof-of-principle facility and research tool for new methods of imaging and therapy. Several imaging methods (absorption-edge subtraction imaging, diffraction enhanced imaging, phase contrast imaging, and absorption imaging) in projection and computed tomography modes as well as monochromatic beam and filtered white beam therapy methods will be available. The layout of the facility will be presented along with examples of the types of research that can be carried out at BMIT.  



Stimulants available 15 minutes before the talk.

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