title: Planning for proton therapy.
abstract: Bruce Johnson, senior vice-president at the Houston, Texas offices of internationally-recognised HKS Architects, examines the considerable physical challenge of accommodating sizeable proton external beam radiation therapy equipment into hospitals, drawing on work undertaken by the practice to date in designing hospitals to cater for such sizeable machinery.
authors.affiliation: HKS Architects, USA.
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D006801:Humans; D061766:Proton Therapy; D011882:Radiotherapy, High-Energy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011522:Protons
chemical_list: D011522:Protons