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REVIEWS OF
ACCELERATOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 2: Medical Applications of Accelerators
edited by Alexander W Chao (SLAC National Accelerator
Laboratory, USA) & Weiren Chou (Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory, USA)
320pp
978-981-4299-34-3: US$108 / £81 US$81 /
£60.75
The theme of this volume, "Medical Applications of
Accelerators", is of enormous importance to human health and has a deep
impact on our society.
The invention of particle accelerators in the early 20th
century created a whole new world for producing energetic X-rays,
electrons, protons, neutrons and other particle beams. Immediately
these beams found revolutionary applications in medicine. There are two
important yet distinct medical applications. One is that accelerators
produce radioisotopes for various nuclear medicines for millions of
patients each year. The other is that accelerators produce particle
beams for radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer. The particle
beams can be X-rays (generated by high-energy electrons), protons,
neutrons or heavy ions such as carbon. Today there are more than 5,000
accelerators routinely used in hospitals all over the world for nuclear
medicine and cancer therapy. The great potential of accelerator
applications in medicine can hardly be exaggerated.
This volume contains 14 articles, all written by
distinguished scholars.
Contents:
- Physical and Biological Basis of Proton and of
Carbon Ion Radiation Therapy and Clinical Outcome Data (H Suit et
al.)
- The Production of Radionuclides for
Radiotracers in Nuclear Medicine (T J Ruth)
- Proton Radiation Therapy in the Hospital
Environment: Conception, Development, and Operation of the Initial
Hospital-Based Facility (J M Slater et al.)
- Microwave Electron Linacs for Oncology (D H
Whittum)
- Heavy-Particle Radiotherapy: System Design and
Application (H Tsujii et al.)
- High Frequency Linacs for Hadrontherapy (U
Amaldi et al.)
- Medical Cyclotrons (D L Friesel & T A
Antaya)
- Synchrotrons for Hadrontherapy (M G Pullia)
- Beam Delivery Systems for Particle Radiation
Therapy: Current Status and Recent Developments (J M Schippers)
- Laser Acceleration of Ions for Radiation
Therapy (T Tajima et al.)
- FFAGs as Accelerators and Beam Delivery Devices
for Ion Cancer Therapy (D Trbojevic)
- The Dielectric Wall Accelerator (G J
Caporaso et al.)
- The Supercollider: The Texas Days — A Personal
Recollection of Its Short Life and Demise (S Wojcicki)
- A Man for All Seasons: Robert R Wilson (E L
Goldwasser)
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