This results in fewer side-effects, shorter overall treatment times (some reduced from five weeks to three days) and allows an increased radiation dose, leading to an enhanced cure rate.

Its scientific instruments are encased inside 400lb of titanium to protect them from the massive radiation dose - the equivalent to 100 million dental x-rays.

Parameters of interest include disintegration rate, particle flux, particle type, beam energy, kerma, dose rate, and radiation dose.

Radiation safety procedures ensure that neither the workers in such facility nor the environment receives any radiation dose from the facility.

Natural sources of radiation amount to an average annual radiation dose of 295 mrem.