Under the Linear Accelerator
Jun. 24th, 2011 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bex77I'm finished with treatment #5 of 30. Only 25 to go!
I haven't had any ill effects yet.
Here's a spiffy photo of the machine they use to zap me with lasers. I finally got the techs to tell me what things are called. The machine is a linear accelerator. Sounds sciencey, huh? The techs call it "linac" for short. The thing that swings around me is called a gantry and the round bit is a collinator. It was invented at Stanford in 1957.
This is what I see when it's over my face:
Contrary to these photos, I don't see any green lines/lasers and my machine is light blue.
I haven't had any ill effects yet.
Here's a spiffy photo of the machine they use to zap me with lasers. I finally got the techs to tell me what things are called. The machine is a linear accelerator. Sounds sciencey, huh? The techs call it "linac" for short. The thing that swings around me is called a gantry and the round bit is a collinator. It was invented at Stanford in 1957.
This is what I see when it's over my face:
Contrary to these photos, I don't see any green lines/lasers and my machine is light blue.
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Date: 2011-06-24 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-24 07:26 pm (UTC)I expect the round thing is a collimator. A collimator creates a narrow beam of particles moving in parallel, so that the beam can be aimed precisely.
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Date: 2011-06-25 12:03 am (UTC)