title: Medical proton accelerator facility.
abstract: This paper presents a specialized medical accelerator facility designed for proton radiation therapy and for production of short-lived nuclide-labelled radiopharmaceuticals. General features of the facility structure, the choice of principles of beam delivery, physical and technical problems connected with clinical work, and biomedical research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, USSR.
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Khoroshkov
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Goldin
mesh_terms: D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D010315:Particle Accelerators; D011522:Protons; D014586:USSR
chemical_list: D011522:Protons