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The demand for proton beam cancer treatment is on the rise worldwide. The only way to make proton therapy (PT) available to more patients is to develop smaller and less expensive PT systems. The challenge is to accomplish this without compromising their efficacy.
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Cameron, J., Schreuder, N. (2012). Smaller – Lighter – Cheaper: New Technological Concepts in Proton Therapy. In: Linz, U. (eds) Ion Beam Therapy. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, vol 320. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21414-1_40
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