Under the Linear Accelerator

[bex77]

I'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.

Comments

[heliopsis.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad things are going well.

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.