An interview with Steve Myers, Head of CERN's office for medical activities. The new office will bring all the diverse medical physics activities at CERN together under a single roof, ensuring that our efforts are optimised.
by Manuela Cirilli, Manjit Dosanjh and Sparsh Navin
Novel technologies, originally developed for HEP experiments, are now finding application in medical physics. Manuela Cirilli, Manjit Dosanjh and Sparsh Navin from the KT group offer an overview of CERN's involvement in medical activities.
Axial PET is a novel geometrical concept for Positron Emission Tomography (PET), based on layers of long scintillating crystals axially aligned with the bore axis. Christian Joram discusses how new technologies, originally developed for HEP experiments, migrated into prototype AX-PET devices.
Medipix hybrid pixel detectors produce images with high resolution, high contrast and almost no noise, making them excellent for use in medical imaging and a broad range of applications involving radiation detection.
The new CERN-MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) project will produce a large variety of radioactive isotopes for medical research, using the expertise and infrastructure of ISOLDE.
In a paper published this month in Nature, the CLOUD experiment reports a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in climate science: how do aerosols form in the atmosphere, and which gases are responsible?
The PH-ESE group organized a mini exhibition of typical electronics from the LHC and other experiments, illustrating the development of electronics for HEP experiments and some of the on-going activities of the group.
A photo gallery, illustrating some of the most important applications in medical applications stemming from 20 years of multidisciplinary research of the CERN-CMS group.
This summer, PH/SFT group took part in the Google Summer of Code programme for the third year in succession. Open to students from all over the world, this programme leads to very successful collaborations for open source software projects.
A new iOS Application that brings CERN news and information on your iPad or iPhone has been developed following a joint effort between the SFT and EDU groups.
The composition of the committee of the Summer Student's Lecture Programme committee has been modified: new members are: Emmanuelle Perez (CMS) who becomes also the chairman of the committee, Richard Hawkings (ATLAS) and Andreas Weiler (TH). They will join Peter Skands (TH), Roger Bailey (Accelerators), Markus Schulz (IT) and Raymond Veness (Engineering) who were already members in the past years.
CERN’s Photo Club, worked closely with the organizing team of the CERN Open Days, to organize a photo competition with “CERN Open Days 2013” as the main theme. The competition lasted from 28 of September to 11 of October and the winners were announced earlier last week.
The award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to F.Englert and P.Higgs “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider" has been fantastic news...
An interview with Steve Myers, Head of CERN's office for medical activities. The new office will bring all the diverse medical physics activities at CERN together under a single roof, ensuring that our efforts are optimised.
Novel technologies, originally developed for HEP experiments, are now finding application in medical physics. Manuela Cirilli, Manjit Dosanjh and Sparsh Navin from the KT group offer an overview of CERN's involvement in medical activities. 
ICTR-PHE 2014 will bring together leading international experts as well as young researchers in the context of both diagnosis and treatment.
Axial PET is a novel geometrical concept for Positron Emission Tomography (PET), based on layers of long scintillating crystals axially aligned with the bore axis. Christian Joram discusses how new technologies, originally developed for HEP experiments, migrated into prototype AX-PET devices.
Development in medical imaging has been one of the most important activities in the course of the last years in the PH department.
Medipix hybrid pixel detectors produce images with high resolution, high contrast and almost no noise, making them excellent for use in medical imaging and a broad range of applications involving radiation detection. 
The new CERN-MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) project will produce a large variety of radioactive isotopes for medical research, using the expertise and infrastructure of ISOLDE.
Geant4, a powerful simulation toolkit developed for High Energy Physics studies, today finds many applications in medical physics.
An interview with the famous Argentinian theoretical physicist about string theory, black holes and the links to modern cosmology.
The Second International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, ICNFP 2013 was held in Kolymbari, Crete from 28 August to 5 September. 
In a paper published this month in Nature, the CLOUD experiment reports a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in climate science: how do aerosols form in the atmosphere, and which gases are responsible? 
The PH-ESE group organized a mini exhibition of typical electronics from the LHC and other experiments, illustrating the development of electronics for HEP experiments and some of the on-going activities of the group.
An image gallery showing the wide range of applications that the Medipix/Timepix chip has outside the field of High Energy Physic. 
A photo gallery, illustrating some of the most important applications in medical applications stemming from 20 years of multidisciplinary research of the CERN-CMS group.
This summer, PH/SFT group took part in the Google Summer of Code programme for the third year in succession. Open to students from all over the world, this programme leads to very successful collaborations for open source software projects.
On the last weekend of September, more than 70,000 people visited over 40 sites on the surface across CERN.
A new iOS Application that brings CERN news and information on your iPad or iPhone has been developed following a joint effort between the SFT and EDU groups.