Journal article
Charged particle therapy: the physics of interaction.
- Lomax AJ Centre for Proton Radiotherapy, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen-PSI, Switzerland. tony.lomax@psi.ch
- 2009-08-13
Published in:
- Cancer journal (Sudbury, Mass.). - 2009
Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation
Humans
Ions
Neoplasms
Particle Size
Photons
Proton Therapy
Relative Biological Effectiveness
English
Particle therapy has a long and distinguished history with more than 50,000 patients having been treated, mainly with high-energy proton therapy. Particularly, for proton therapy, there is an increasing interest in exploiting the physical characteristics of charged particles for further improving the potential of radiation therapy. In this article, we review the most important interactions of charged particles with matter and describe the basic physical principles that underlie why particle beams behave the way they do and why such a behavior could bring many benefits in radiation therapy.
- Language
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1097/PPO.0b013e3181af5cc7
- PMID 19672144
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/126701
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