Desktop accelerators - Going up?

Ledingham, Kenneth (2006) Desktop accelerators - Going up? Nature Physics, 2 (1). pp. 11-12. ISSN 1745-2473

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys206

Abstract

Treating cancer with beams of high-energy protons is just one of the exciting possibilities presented by the advent of laser-based particle accelerators. But how soon will these devices reach the performance levels needed for such applications, and how will these improvements be made?

Author(s):	Ledingham, Kenneth
Item type:	Article
ID code:	31222
Keywords:	cancer, oncology, laser-based particle accelerators, high-energy protons, high-energy quasi-monoenergetic electron beams , Physics, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer), Physics and Astronomy(all)
Subjects:	Science > Physics Medicine > Internal medicine > Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer)
Department:	Faculty of Science > Physics
Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
Date deposited:	13 Jul 2011 08:55
Last modified:	03 Jan 2019 12:56
URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/31222
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