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As I was building betatrons it was only natural that I should become more and more interested in their most important application, radiation therapy. By the 60s I was therefore concentrating almost exclusively on the biological effects of radiation, especially in cancer therapy. Until then I had been concerned only with the technology of betatrons. It was a kind of metamorphosis which seemed to me quite logical and, moreover, necessary.
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© 1994 Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig/Wiesbaden
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Waloschek, P. (1994). How Radiation Kills Cells — the Two-Component Theory. In: Waloschek, P. (eds) The Infancy of Particle Accelerators. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-05244-9_14
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