NDLI: A Medical Cyclotron, Facilities and Program at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Barrall, R. C. Merendino, K. A. Feteih, Nizar
Copyright Year	1963
Abstract	A new Cancer Therapy Institute at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia became fully operational in November 1982. The new building incorporates extensive facilities for the production of medically useful radionuclides and additional cancer treatment capability including two neutron therapy machines and an electron linear accelerator. A model CS30 medical cyclotron with 7 beam lines was supplied by The Cyclotron Corporation, Berkeley, California. The hot laboratory facilities include five hot cells and a radioactive gas processing station to deliver short-lived radioactive gases to a station in the positron emission tomography (PET) camera room. Facilities for radiopharmaceutical processing, quality control and packaging of radioactive materials are provided. A PDP 11/70 computer controls a fully automated air monitoring system while other computers control permission to operate equipment and monitor status of shielding doors and radiation levels both inside and outside the shielded rooms. A high level gamma irradiation facility for medical sterilization and other uses, designed to hold up to 2 million Curies of cobalt-60 is also provided. The new facility will produce short lived radionuclides for hospitals and other institutions in the Kingdom and the nearby area while also providing an opportunity to investigate the effectiveness of high energy neutrons in cancer treatment.
Sponsorship	IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (CANPS) Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. APS College of William and Mary Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility NASA Defence Nuclear Agency Sandia National Laboratories Jet Propulsion Laboratory Brookhaven Nat. Lab. Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab IEEE/NPPS Radiat. Effects Committee Defence Nuclear Agency/DoD Sandia National Laboratories/DOE Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Phillips Lab./DoD
Starting Page	1777
Ending Page	1780
Page Count	4
File Size	1539976
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189499
Volume Number	30
Issue Number	2
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1983-04-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Cyclotrons Hospitals Cancer Medical treatment Neutrons Positron emission tomography Automatic control Medical control systems Control systems Biomedical monitoring
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nuclear and High Energy Physics Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
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