The mission of the Center for Radiological Research (CRR) is 1) to foster a multi disciplinary approach towards understanding the biological and human health consequences of ionizing radiation exposure 2) to train the next generation of radiobiologists and 3) to provide an unbiased, comprehensive, independent source of scientific information on radiation exposure for government, elected officials, non-profit institutions and private entities to enable them to make informed policy decisions.The Radiological Research Accelerator Facility (RARAF) is a National Resource Center supported by the National Institutes of Health. It is based on a Singletron accelerator and provides well characterized radiations for experiments in radiobiology and radiological physics. Experiments are conducted by members of the Center for Radiological Research, visiting scientists and outside users. A new facility to provide neutrons with energies in the range of 10 to 100 keV is being developed.Available beams include:• Single particle microbeam to irradiate individual cell nuclei with single ions.• Monoenergetic neutrons with mean energies from 0.2 to 15 MeV.• Charged particles (protons, deuterons, helium-
...3 and helium-4 ions) with defined LET in the track-segment mode.• Molecular ions providing pairs of particles of known average separation.• 50 to 250 kVp X-rays from standard x-ray machines.• Monoenergetic X-rays with energies between 0.3 and 3.0 keV produced by proton-induced x-ray emission (PIXE).Please visit the RARAF homepage, http://www.raraf.org, for additional information.
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