Particle radiotherapy : emerging technology for treatment of cancer /

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Imprint:New Delhi : Springer, 2016.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 194 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11253714
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Other authors / contributors:Rath, Arabinda Kumar, editor.
Sahoo, Narayan (Of University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center), editor.
ISBN:9788132226222
8132226224
8132226216
9788132226215
Digital file characteristics:text file
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Notes:Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 16, 2016).
Summary:The results of decades of research and development are providing compelling evidence about the efficacy of radiation therapy with proton and carbon ion beams to achieve superior complication free tumor control leading to a world-wide rapid growth in their clinical use. This book contains comprehensive reviews of the state of the art of the technology and physics of heavy charge particle therapy by the experts from the leading cancer centers of world that will be valuable as a practical guide for radiation therapy professionals interested in these modalities.
Other form:Printed edition: 9788132226215
Standard no.:10.1007/978-81-322-2622-2