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This book presents a comparison analysis of two cancer treatment therapies: carbon ion therapy and protontherapy. It is divided in 5 sections. The first ones gives the reader a brief history of Radiotherapy and types of radiation. In the second section, the techniques and equipments, including new ones in development such as Cyclinac , Laser and DWA, are described. The third section describes biophysical (such as stopping power and LET) and biological (such as RBE and OER) properties, the fundamental experiments and clinical area. The fourth section presents models and the fifth section compares both techniques, showing advantages and disadvantages of each, and their similarities.
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Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
Marcos d’Ávila Nunes
Protontherapy Versus Carbon Ion Therapy Advantages, Disadvantages and Similarities
Protontherapy Versus Carbon Ion Therapy
BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL PHYSICS, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING The fields of biological and medical physics and biomedical engineering are broad, multidisciplinary and dynamic. They lie at the crossroads of frontier research in physics, biology, chemistry, and medicine. The Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering Series is intended to be comprehensive, covering a broad range of topics important to the study of the physical, chemical and biological sciences. Its goal is to provide scientists and engineers with textbooks, monographs, and reference works to address the growing need for information. Books in the series emphasize established and emergent areas of science including molecular, membrane, and mathematical biophysics; photosynthetic energy harvesting and conversion; information processing; physical principles of genetics; sensory communications; automata networks, neural networks, and cellular automata. Equally important will be coverage of applied aspects of biological and medical physics and biomedical engineering such as molecular electronic components and devices, biosensors, medicine, imaging, physical principles of renewable energy production, advanced prostheses, and environmental control and engineering.
Editor-in-Chief: Elias Greenbaum, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
Editorial Board: Masuo Aizawa, Department of Bioengineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan Olaf S. Andersen, Department of Physiology, Biophysics and Molecular Medicine, Cornell University, New York, USA Robert H. Austin, Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA James Barber, Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, England Howard C. Berg, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Victor Bloomfield, Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA Robert Callender, Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA Britton Chance, University of Pennsylvania Department of Biochemistry/Biophysics Philadelphia, USA Steven Chu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA Louis J. DeFelice, Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Johann Deisenhofer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The University of Texas, Dallas, Texas, USA George Feher, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA Ivar Giaever, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NewYork, USA Sol M. Gruner, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Judith Herzfeld, Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA Mark S. Humayun, Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA Pierre Joliot, Inst