Particle therapy for noncancer diseases

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1716-1727

  Bert, Christoph ^a   Engenhart Cabillic, Rita ^b   Durante, Marco ^a,c,d  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; DISEASES; RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCELERATOR FACILITIES; APPLICATION OF ACCELERATORS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COST/BENEFIT RATIO; HIGH ENERGY CHARGED PARTICLE; MACULAR DEGENERATION; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

DISEASE CONTROL;

EID: 84861627271     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3691903     Document Type: Article

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