1. International Masterclasses,
Physics and Society
a quick view
Catalina Curceanu
LNF-INFN
International Masterclasses,
February 2011

2. Positron Electron Tomography
It is a technique used to see inside the body
One injects in the patient a substance containing a radioactive isotope (as C11 – glucosium). The radioactive substance is produced in an accelerator ( a ciclotron)
A PET apparatus has ~
G 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
Hadrons (as protons or ions. C) can be used to cure tumors.
To do this one uses accelerators.
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

16. Adroterapia in Italy (CNAO)

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

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

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

23. Blood search

24. Blood search

25. Escher, Relativity 1953

26. Escher, 1960

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

30. The Persistence of memory, Salvador Dali, 1931

31. Domingo Cristo Hypercubus, Salvador Dali 1954

33. Si tratta dell’immagine ad albero impressa in un blocco di plexiglass dalla scarica elettrica provocata dalla nuvola di elettroni iniettati al suo interno mediante un acceleratore.
Concludo, ringraziando tutti i presenti e l’Accademia che ci ospita, con l’invito ad accettare il volume sulla storia dell’INFN che sarà reso disponibile nell’intervallo.