Author: Antoine Le Gall
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Timepix: from CERN’s galleries to the Moon
The renowned Timepix detector celebrates its 10-year anniversary on the International Space Station by flying to the Moon: the chip features in NASA’s future lunar programme BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://medipix.web.cern.ch//news/news/timepix/timepix-cerns-galleries-moon) In July 1969, just a few days after the first Moon landing, CERN’s then Director-General, Bernard Gregory, sent the following message…
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First European hospital receives 3D colour X-ray scanner using CERN technology
MARS Bioimaging’s 3D colour X-ray scanner has arrived in Europe to undertake clinical trials that will lead to its medical use. After years of development in New Zealand, MARS Bioimaging’s 3D colour X-ray scanner has arrived in Europe, at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) in Switzerland. This event marks the first step towards the European part…
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Timepix-based detectors bring particle physics in the classroom
The ADMIRA project uses Timepix-based detectors to help students experiment with particle physics and contributes to transforming STEM education. Combustion, diffraction, magnetism… Many natural phenomena can be observed, experimented with and studied at school. Some have traditionally been difficult to demonstrate and have had to rely on theory only. Particle physics is one such subject…
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New 3D colour X-rays made possible with CERN technology
Stunning new images pave the way to large-scale human trials, two years on from the first ever 3D colour human X-ray using CERN Medipix3 technology Two years after the first ever 3D colour X-ray of a living human, MARS Bioimaging have released stunning new images made using a world-first compact scanner, based on Medipix3 technology…
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CERN technology helps rediscover lost painting by Raphael
CERN’s Timepix particle detectors, developed by the Medipix2 Collaboration, help unravel the secret of a long-lost painting by the great Renaissance master, Raphael 500 years ago, the Italian painter Raphael passed away, leaving behind him many works of art, paintings, frescoes and engravings. Like his contemporaries Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael’s work made the…
