T. Kamiya et al., Development of an automated single cell irradiation system combined with ahigh-energy heavy ion microbeam system, NUCL INST B, 181, 2001, pp. 27-31
An automated single cell recognition and irradiation system has been develo
ped at a high-energy heavy ion microbeam. The system has been installed on
a vertical beam line of the JAERI Takasaki AVF-cyclotron accelerator to irr
adiate individual biological cells in an air environment with energies of m
ore than 10 MeV/u by single ions. The system consists of high-precision sta
ges, optical microscopes with CCD camera, a computer network and software p
ackages to obtain positional data from a cluster of individual samples rand
omly placed on a holder before irradiation and to irradiate them with indiv
idual ions according to the obtained data. This paper will describe the new
systems, and show results from irradiation experiments for CR-39. (C) 2001
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