Accelerators for America's future workshop: Medicine and biology

Health Physics

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 667-673

  Alonso, Jose R ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

accelerators; National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements; protons; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; MEDICINE; PROTON THERAPY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGY; EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; MEDICINE; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PROTON THERAPY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867149168     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e318260650b     Document Type: Article

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