CNAO offers virtual tours of its facilities
The strict lockdown rules imposed in northern Italy to reduce the spread of the coronavirus have not stopped CNAO from carrying out an active programme of scientific dissemination and teaching.
Although the guided visits to the Centre have been cancelled, they offer students and teachers to participate in virtual guided tours, realized through videoconferencing platforms and a 60-minute online journey, which describes the innovative technologies available in the field of medical physics and the clinical activity performed at CNAO.
The first two guided tours took place on Friday 24 April and were a great success. 170 young people discovered the technologies supporting the activities of CNAO.
The participants can enter virtually the synchrotron bunker, an 80-meter-long particle accelerator in which protons and carbon ions travel, and marvel at the robotic patient positioning system in the CNAO treatment rooms. Physicists, engineers and technicians from CNAO accompany the participants along a 60-minute journey. The guided tours are free.
Find out more at: https://fondazionecnao.it/visite-guidate