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Medical proton accelerator facility

V S Khoroshkov¹, L L Goldin

¹Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, USSR.

International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics

|October 1, 1988

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.

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