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There are medical spinoffs. eg Positron emission tomography = PET scan.
by ape4 6y ago
There are medical spinoffs. eg Positron emission tomography = PET scan.
- pfdietz 6y agoPET scans are a spinoff of accelerators -- accelerators of the kind built before WW2, with energies six or more orders of magnitude below that of the LHC. Cyclotrons are used to make 18F, a shortlived positron emitter that is incorporated into a fluorinated glucose derivative to act as a tracer detected by the scanner. You're not going to see medical spinoffs from massively larger machines.