Towards Laser Driven Hadron Cancer Radiotherapy: A Review of Progress
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It has been known for about sixty years that proton and heavy ion therapy is a very powerful radiation procedure for treating tumors. It has an innate ability to irradiate tumors with greater doses and spatial selectivity compared with electron and photon therapy and, hence, is a tissue sparing procedure. For more than twenty years, powerful lasers have generated high energy beams of protons and heavy ions and it has, therefore, frequently been speculated that lasers could be used as an alternative to radiofrequency (RF) accelerators to produce the particle beams necessary for cancer therapy. The present paper reviews the progress made towards laser driven hadron cancer therapy and what has still to be accomplished to realize its inherent enormous potential.
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OpenAlex topics: Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics · High-pressure geophysics and materials · Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry
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SUPA, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G40NG, Scotland, UK
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Selcuk, Konya 42031, Turkey
Faculty of Physics, Ludwig Maximilians University, Am Coulombwall 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
Kansai Photon Science Institute, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
Radiation Oncology Department, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 333 Cottman Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA
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