Engineering design and study of the beam position accuracy in the `Riesenrad' ion gantry

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 456, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 390-410

  Reimoser, Stefan A ^a,b   Pavlovic, Márius ^a,c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c MedAustron GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ION BEAMS;

HADRON THERAPY; ION THERAPHY; RIESENRAD ION GANTRY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0035157057     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(00)00577-5     Document Type: Article

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