Proton-ion medical machine study
Subtitle: PIMMS
By: CERN
Series: CERN -- 2000-006; CERN (Series) -- 2000-003.
Publisher: CERN
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Cancer; Research; Treatment; Synchrotrons; Proton beams; Therapeutic use
Other titles: PIMMS
Description: Includes information about PIMMS, the design of a generic facility that will allow direct clinical comparison of carbon ions and protons for cancer treatment, with supporting reports, technical notes, and doctoral theses. Also includes a film of the "Riesenrad" gantry, the ion gantry analyzed in the greatest detail in the text.
Notes: Title from disc label.

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