That thing... is radioactive. They're called thoriated rods, and they're used in welding. You can... just buy them. - Suzie Sheehy

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That thing... is radioactive. They're called thoriated rods, and they're used in welding. You can... just buy them.

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About Suzie Sheehy

Suzanne Lyn Sheehy (born 1984) is an Australian accelerator physicist who runs research groups at the University of Oxford and the , where she is developing new s for applications in medicine.

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Alternative Names: Suzanne Sheehy Suzanne L. Sheehy Suzanne Lyn Sheehy S. L. Sheehy
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If you use protons instead you can... get a much better defined distribution of the dose and this is really a fantastic treatment. It is more expensive than x-ray radiotherapy, but based on the basic physics of how a beam reacts inside... the body, or inside tissue... it's a fantastic treatment, and one that we should look forward to using in the future.

Now the radiation dose that the LHC beam could give you could kill you 76,000 times over, but the radiation dose you'd receive from a beam of say 200 MeV, a relatively modest proton beam, is much lower and can... be used to treat cancer... [W]e use this in... , which we're getting in the UK. We actually did pioneer it and... it hasn't quite come back onto the NHS yet...

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