Accelerating protons to therapeutic energies with ultraintense, ultraclean, and ultrashort laser pulses

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1770-1776

  Bulanov, Stepan S ^a   Brantov, Andrei ^b   Bychenkov, Valery Yu ^b   Chvykov, Vladimir ^a   Kalinchenko, Galina ^a   Matsuoka, Takeshi ^a   Rousseau, Pascal ^a   Reed, Stephen ^a   Yanovsky, Victor ^a   Krushelnick, Karl ^a   Litzenberg, Dale William ^a   Maksimchuk, Anatoly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ion acceleration; Laser plasma interaction; Proton therapy

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; HEAVY IONS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; PLASMA SIMULATION; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; HIGH INTENSITY LASER PULSE; ION ACCELERATIONS; LASER PULSE PROPAGATION; LASER-PLASMA INTERACTIONS; LASER-SOLID INTERACTION; PROTON THERAPY;

ACCELERATION;

ION;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; HADRON; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION PHYSICS;

EID: 42949176596     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2900112     Document Type: Article

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