Synchrotron Radiation and Instrumentation at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Esrf

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Esrf

MOSFET dosimetry for microbeam radiation therapy at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility.

Preclinical experiments are carried out with approximately 20-30 microm wide, approximately 10 mm high parallel microbeams of hard, broad-"white"-spectrum x rays (approximately 50-600 keV) to investigate microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) of brain tumors in infants for whom other kinds of radiotherapy are inadequate and/or unsafe. Novel physical microdosimetry (implemented with MOSFET chips in t...

European Synchrotron Radiation Storage Rings1

The list of European synchrotron radiation sources is updated. It shows several new facilities coming into operation, or very close to completion. Their characteristics show the present trends of the community. New projects are announced. The capabilities are extended in the countries already equipped, and new countries are willing to build synchrotron radiation sources. All this confirms the v...

Instrumentation for synchrotron-radiation macromolecular crystallography.

X-ray diffraction is an extremely important tool for structure determination of biological macromolecules, to the extent that currently around 85% of Protein Data Bank entries result from X-ray measurements. Many of these structure determinations use synchrotron radiation for data collection. This article aims to give synchrotron users an overview of the functioning of a synchrotron beamline an...