Future trends in cancer therapy with particle accelerators

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-16

  Amaldi, Ugo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadrontherapy; Ion therapy; Medical accelerators; Protontherapy; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ION BEAMS; IONS; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; PROTON BEAMS; TUMORS;

CANCER THERAPY; CARBON IONS; CONFORMAL TREATMENT; FUTURE TRENDS; HADRON THERAPY; HEALTHY TISSUES; HEAVY CHARGED PARTICLES; ION THERAPY; MEDICAL ACCELERATOR; PROTON THERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

CARBON; PROTON;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; HADRON; HADRON THERAPY; HEAVY CHARGED PARTICLE; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; NEUTRON; NEUTRON RADIATION; PARTICLE RADIATION; PROTON RADIATION; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; X RAY;

EID: 1842511747     PISSN: 09393889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0939-3889-00193     Document Type: Article

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