Transport of ion-therapy beams in rotating gantries
By: Márius Pavlovic.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781608765041
Subjects: Radiotherapy -- Equipment and supplies; Ion bombardment; Gantries; Radiotherapy, High-Energy -- instrumentation; Ions -- therapeutic use; Particle Accelerators
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : historical milestones, current status, and trends; title: Development of ion gantries; title: Summary of the relevant beam transport concepts; title: Formulation of the problem rotator-based matching techniques; title: Matching techniques without the rotator : the sigma-matrix matching.