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2. Positron Electron Tomography One injects in the patient a substance containing a radioactive isotope (as C11 – glucosium). The radioactive substance is produced in an accelerator ( a ciclotron) It is a technique used to see inside the body A PET apparatus has ~ 10.000 Ray detectors

6. Computerized Tomography

7. CT allows to have a 3-dmensional map of the body

13. The 3,300-year-old mummy of King Tutankhamun is scanned to assess the need for restoration and also to attempt to discover the cause of his early death (January 2005) ( Computed Tomography Imaging (CT Scan )

14. Hadron therapy The eye melanoma are curable almost Exclusively by hadron therapy The eye melanoma are curable almost Exclusively by hadron therapy The cure with a proton beam allows to deposit A big quantity of energy only in the tumoral region The cure with a proton beam allows to deposit A big quantity of energy only in the tumoral region Hadrons (as protons or ions. C) can be used to cure tumors. To do this one uses accelerators.

16. Adroterapia in Italy (CNAO)

17. 17 X-ray (or particle) source Detector Object to study

18. Each element has a particular (characteristic) energy in the X-ray spectrum Nello spettro di fluorescenza dellaffresco di Lorenzo Lotto si nota la presenza di ferro (Fe) e di oro (Au). Physics and art

19. Pentimenti Le Sueur – musa Urania (particolare)

20. Pigment analyses Leonardo Da Vinci – La Gioconda

21. Painting on another painting Rembrandt – Portrait of young man Titus

22. Blood search

25. Escher, Relativity 1953

26. Escher, 1960

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29. 29 Girl in a chair Picasso's 1907 the 4th dimension

30. 30 The Persistence of memory, Salvador Dali, 1931

31. 31 Domingo Cristo Hypercubus, Salvador Dali 1954

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