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Cancer therapy with particle accelerators

This review paper is devoted to conventional radiotherapy and to hadron therapy. In this therapeutical modality, proposed by R. R. Wilson in 1946, the physical selectivity of proton and light ion beams is used to irradiate tissues very close to organs at risk, which cannot be irradiated (the brain a...

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Autor principal: Amaldi, Ugo
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 1999
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0375-9474(99)00264-X
http://cds.cern.ch/record/419556