Slideshow: The Cyclotron Comes to the 'Hood

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The North shore hospital cyclotron is the same model (Scandiatronix 16), without shields in a concrete vault.

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The controls are to the left and the cyclotron is to the right with shields closed.

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The top pole of the Scandiatronix MC16 raised, along with the top shield tank, and end shield tanks.

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Looking down one side of the cyclotron with the end shield opened to right, you can see the top shield and side shields.

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Here are the raised top pole, end shields and top shield.

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The open acceleration vacuum chamber shows the magnet steel side yoked to the side.

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When Albert Swank Jr. was 17 he built a cyclotron at his home – the same place he wants to install the larger, 20-ton model from Johns Hopkins.