Treating cancer with protons

Physics Today

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 45-50

  Goitein, Michael ^a   Lomax, Antony J ^b   Pedroni, Eros S ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; ONCOLOGY; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; TUMORS;

CANCER TREATMENT;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0036740088     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1522215     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. R. R. Wilson, Radiology 47, 487 (1946).
2. M. R. Raju, Heavy Particle Radiotherapy, Academic Press, New York (1980).
3. Ute Linz, ed., Ion Beams in Tumor Therapy, Chapman & Hall, New York (1995).
4. A. J. Lomax, M. Goitein, in Advances in Hadrontherapy, U. Amaldi, B. Larsson, Y. Lemoigne, eds., Elsevier Science BV, New York (1997), p. 233.
5. U. Amaldi, B. Larsson, eds., Hadrontherapy in Oncology, Elsevier Science BV, New York (1994). (The book is a good overview of the field; beam delivery is treated very generally from page 435 on.)
6. I. J. Spiro, A. R. Smith, A. J. Lomax, J. S. Loeffler, in Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, 6th edition, V. T. DeVita, S. Hellmann, S. A. Rosenberg, eds., Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia (2001), p. 3229.