"Version: 20170601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 20-21).Introduction : technologies for particle physics -- Medical applications of particle physics -- Particle detectors for medical imaging -- Charpak and the multiwire proportional chamber -- Townsend and PET imaging -- Hadron therapy -- The PIMMS collaboration -- ENLIGHT : collaboration is key -- Medical imagin…
"Version: 20170101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 23).Introduction -- Why proton beams? -- Technical challenges -- Physics challenges -- Biological challenges -- Clinical challenges -- Outlook.Cancer therapy is a multi-modality approach including surgery, systemic or targeted chemotherapy, radiation (external beam or radionuclide), and immunotherapy. Radiation is t…