Investigating the biological effectiveness of clinical proton beams for the improvement of particle therapy
Proton radiotherapy represents a rapidly developing alternative to photon based treatment for specific types of cancer. The therapeutic use of protons is fundamentally motivated by an advantageous depth-dose profile characterised by the “Bragg peak". The limitation of damage to healthy tissues...
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Queen's University Belfast
2016
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707533 |