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CERN Open Days: Technologies that change your lives

What does CERN have to do with 3D colour x-rays and 19th century paintings?

Events
30 September, 2019

20th Anniversary Symposium on Medipix and Timepix

The Medipix2 Collaboration will celebrate 20 years of activity in 2019. To mark the occasion, a special symposium on Medipix and Timepix will be held at CERN on 18 September.

Events
14 August, 2019

More bang from your beam: reimagining X-ray conversion

The X-rays used for radiation therapy, medical imaging and many other applications are produced by slamming an electron beam into a piece of metal.

Events
19 July, 2018

First 3D colour X-ray of a human using CERN technology

First human scanned with next–generation 3D colour scanner using CERN technology.

Medipix
18 July, 2018

How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective

BBC on Fake Art – InsightART in the report!

Medipix
20 June, 2018

From CERN to the clinic

At a seminar at CERN today, Ron Heeren describes how CERN’s Timepix read-out chip might in the future be found in surgery rooms.

Events
29 May, 2018
Events
29 May, 2018

Amsterdam Scientific Instruments (ASI): Timepix3 licence

Amsterdam Scientific Instruments (ASI) has acquired a license from CERN for the TIMEPIX3 technology, a core component for ASI’s next generation hybrid pixel cameras.

Timepix
25 January, 2018

ADVACAM: Timepix3 licence

CERN as an authorized licensor of Medipix3 collaboration and ADVACAM s.r.o. have signed a Timepix3 license agreement. Timepix3 chip (TPX3) is the next generation of X-ray and radiation imaging technology.

Timepix
27 October, 2017
Timepix
27 October, 2017

2017 High Energy Physics Prize awarded to Erik Heijne, Robert Klanner and Gerhard Lutz

Erik initiated hybrid pixel detector development at CERN and was a founding member of the first Medipix Collaboration.

Physics
05 July, 2017

Spectral imaging: from CERN to medical technologies

Ever since Röntgen discovered x-rays in 1895, physics and medicine have gone hand in hand, and advances made to particle detectors at CERN and elsewhere have continuously fuelled new developments in medical imaging.

Medipix
07 May, 2017