REVIEWS OF ACCELERATOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY<br> Volume 2: Medical Applications of Accelerators

REVIEWS OF ACCELERATOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 2: Medical Applications of Accelerators

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER Alexander W. Chao and Weiren Chou	i
Physical and Biological Basis of Proton and of Carbon Ion Radiation Therapy and Clinical Outcome Data Herman Suit, Thomas F. Delaney and Alexei Trofimov	1
The Production of Radionuclides for Radiotracers in Nuclear Medicine Thomas J. Ruth	17
Proton Radiation Therapy in the Hospital Environment: Conception, Development, and Operation of the Initial Hospital-Based Facility James M. Slater, Jerry D. Slater and Andrew J. Wroe	35
Microwave Electron Linacs for Oncology David H. Whittum	63
Heavy-Particle Radiotherapy: System Design and Application Hirohiko Tsujii, Shinichi Minohara and Koji Noda	93
High Frequency Linacs for Hadrontherapy Ugo Amaldi, Saverio Braccini and Paolo Puggioni	111
Medical Cyclotrons D. L. Friesel and T. A. Antaya	133
Synchrotrons for Hadrontherapy Marco G. Pullia	157
Beam Delivery Systems for Particle Radiation Therapy: Current Status and Recent Developments J. M. Schippers	179
Laser Acceleration of Ions for Radiation Therapy Toshiki Tajima, Dietrich Habs and Xueqing Yan	201
FFAGs as Accelerators and Beam Delivery Devices for Ion Cancer Therapy Dejan Trbojevic	229
The Dielectric Wall Accelerator George J. Caporaso, Yu-Jiuan Chen and Stephen E. Sampayan	253
The Supercollider: The Texas Days — A Personal Recollection of Its Short Life and Demise Stanley Wojcicki	265
A Man for All Seasons: Robert R. Wilson Edwin L. Goldwasser	303
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