title: Light ion accelerators for cancer therapy.
abstract: The paper concentrates on the accelerator choices for light ion cancer irradiation facilities, as outlined in several proposals over the last 15 years and concludes with the description of a modern synchrotron facility. Further summary papers on the same subject are cited in references [14, 19].
authors.affiliation: GSI Darmstadt, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Böhne
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D010315:Particle Accelerators / Q000295:instrumentation