Animal facilities are presently limited to the use of the bio-prep laboratory as a holding room. Cell culture facilities include contamination control hoods, incubators, refrigerators, a Coulter counter, microscopes, centrifuges, etc. Please list the facilities you will need and indicate those you will need exclusive use of for a day or longer.

Collaborative dosimetry support and accelerator operation will normally be provided for irradiations. Additional collaboration or support needed should be mentioned on the form.

For biological irradiations, the technical aspects discussed should include such things as the characteristics of the radiation required, fixtures needed, nature, size and environmental requirements of samples, protocols (including experimental conditions to be compared, number of doses per condition and samples per dose, and doses desired), dosimetry requirements, simultaneous use of x-ray facility, etc.

For radiological physics experiments, discuss technical aspects such as the apparatus, interface, if any, with accelerator vacuum system, beam parameter specifications, space requirements around beam line and for setup, computer needs, etc. Drawings or sketches may be helpful.
 

Your abstract should include a summary of the experiment and make a case for its importance. The abstract should also explain why the experiment should be done at RARAF rather than somewhere else (it requires a microbeam, monoenergetic neutrons or a nearby cell lab, for example) and whether it is feasible to do the experiment at RARAF using existing or slightly modified facilities. Details of experimental method, protocols, etc. should not appear in the abstract. The Scientific Advisory Committee will recommend a priority for your experiment based on the information, including references, you provide. We would therefore appreciate receiving reprints or copies of some of the references you list.
 

RARAF is able to provide beam time through two grants from the NIH, so it is very important for us that these grants be acknowledged in any papers or abstracts that report on results obtained wholly or partially at RARAF. Please use the format: “The Radiological Research Accelerator Facility (RARAF) is an NIH supported Resource Center through grants EB-002033 (NIBIB) and CA-049062 (NCI).”
 

We very much hope that the work at RARAF results in published papers and/or abstracts. We do request that you pass these papers or abstracts by a member of the RARAF staff (Randers-Pehrson, Geard, Marino, or Brenner) prior to submission, so that we can make sure the references to the facility are accurate.