Conveners
Session 7: Applied Nuclear Physics
- Charlot Vandevoorde ( Biophysics Department, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany)
Introduction
The cyclotron-based production of radionuclides for medicine is one of the research activities carried out in the framework of the SPES (Selective Production of Exotic Species) project at the Legnaro National Laboratories of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN-LNL). The heart of SPES is the 70 MeV proton-cyclotron with a dual-beam extraction, installed in 2015 in a...
The work is devoted to determining the response function of the detector LaBr3(Ce) for γ -quanta, formed during inelastic scattering of neutrons with energy of 14.1 MeV on the nuclei 16O. In gamma spectrometry, output pulses are recorded, the amplitudes of which are proportional to the energy lost in the detection medium by incident photons. One of the main tasks of radiation detection is to...
The aim of this study is to evaluate the suitability of ADAM10 as a target for imaging cervical cancer using a 123I-radiolabelled ADAM10 inhibitor. A Disintegrin and Metalloproteinases (ADAMs) exhibit proteolytic activity like matrix metalloproteinases and ADAM10 sheds a range of membrane-bound proteins that play a role in cancer progression, radioresistance and the tumor micro-environment....
Considering the upcoming long-duration spaceflight missions, a better understanding of the impact of spaceflight exposome on human health is urgently warranted. Consequently, particle accelerator facilities implement ground-based, Radiobiology experiments investigating the health effects of simulated-space environments with simulated-psychological or physical stressors. iThemba LABS is such a...
