Proton-ion medical machine study

PIMMS

By European Organization for Nuclear Research

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Publish Date

2000

Publisher

CERN

Language

eng

Pages

Description:

Includes information about PIMMS, the design of a generic facility that will allow direct clinical comparison of carbon ions and protons for cancer treatment, with supporting reports, technical notes, and doctoral theses. Also includes a film of the "Riesenrad" gantry, the ion gantry analyzed in the greatest detail in the text.

subjects: Cancer, Research, Treatment, Synchrotrons, Proton beams, Therapeutic use