Facultatea de Fizică
Universitatea "Al.I.Cuza" Iaşi
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| Titlu: Hadrontherapy |
| Autori: Irina Butuc, Roxana Panait, Dan Mihailescu |
| Afiliere: Faculty of Physics,“Al. I. Cuza” University, 700506 Iasi, Romania |
| Abstract: Any of several forms of radiotherapy of malignant tumours that uses beams of elementary particles (protons, heavy ions, π mesons) instead of photon/electron beams is known as hadrontherapy. Due to the particular characteristics of dose deposition mechanism of these heavy charged particles, hadrontherapy has many advantages over the conventional treatment techniques with photons and electron beams. However, hadrontherapy has a major disadvantage: is an expensive technique. As a consequence, only about 13 countries in the world (among which USA, Canada, Japan, Germany or Italy) have developed functionally hadrontherapy centres. The purpose of this work, organized like a tutorial paper for medical physics students, is to describe the hadrontherapy technique as well as to analyze its present status and future perspectives in Romania and abroad. |
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