Medical proton accelerator facility.
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.
Khoroshkov
V S
VS
Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, USSR.
Goldin
L L
LL
D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D010315:Particle Accelerators; D011522:Protons; D014586:USSR
D011522:Protons