Proton beam therapy : how protons are revolutionizing cancer treatment / Santosh Yajnik.

While radiation therapy is a mainstay of cancer treatment, traditional linear accelerators mainly use photons to irradiate cancerous tissue. Photons deposit much more energy in the surrounding normal tissue than protons. Proton beam therapy is a revolutionary alternative that deposits most of its ca...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Yajnik, Santosh
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Springer Science+Business Media, ©2013.
Subjects:	Proton beams > Therapeutic use. Cancer > Radiotherapy.