The University of Birmingham is supporting ground-breaking research to create a proton Computed Tomography (CT) image that will help to facilitate the treatment of cancer patients in the UK. The researchers are using the University’s centrally funded HPC service, which was built by OCF, to simulate 1000 million protons, which takes just 3% of the time with HPC comparted with a desktop machine.
Proton therapy targets tumours very precisely using a proton beam and can cause less damage to surrounding tissue than conventional radiotherapy, which often makes it a beneficial treatment for children.
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