India has joined the exclusive club of nations with superconducting cyclotron capability. The cyclotron device costs 100 crores, which accelerates charged particles close to the speed of light and is vital in frontline basic and applied research in nuclear sciences. The radio isotopes and proton beams and it generates can be used in critical medical applications like treating the brain tumor and eye cancer. Today, there is no health care facility in India which provides non-invasive proton beam surgery, which point outs and destroys cancerous cells.
This device has 100-tonne ironcore superconducting magnet with a magnetic field of 5 telsa(about 1,00,000 times the earth’s magnetic field)and 8 tonne superconducting coil that is kept cool at -269 C. It can be used to ensure uninterrupted power supply by releasing energy stored in coils. It can lead to transport systems that make travel lightning quick, in excess of 500km/hr using magnetic levitation
Completion of Cyclotron project is huge achievement for Indian science as there is no such facility in Asia, Australia, Africa or South America. This device can create magnets required for magnetic resonance imaging device. It will also generate radio-isotopes in gamma cameras for tumor and cancer diagnosis. Such isotopes will be generated commercially at medical cyclotron being built at ‘Rajarhat’.
‘Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre’ (VECC) with their scientists are keen to build a fixed energy Cyclotron that will emit proton beams to treat cancer
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Nice article Omkar! Really informative one.. Keep blogging!
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