Editorial Preface ............................................. vii
Physical and Biological Basis of Proton and of Carbon Ion
Radiation Therapy and Clinical Outcome Data
Herman Suit, Thomas F. Delaney and Alexei Trofimov ........... 1
The Production of Radionuclides for Radiotracers in Nuclear
Medicine
Thomas J. Ruth .............................................. 17
Proton Radiation Therapy in the Hospital Environment:
Conception, Development, and Operation of the Initial
Hospital-Based Facility
James M. Slater, Jerry D. Slater and Andrew J. Wroe ......... 35
Microwave Electron Linacs for Oncology
David H. Whittum ............................................ 63
Heavy-Particle Radiotherapy: System Design and Application
H. Tsujii, S. Minohara and K. Noda .......................... 93
High Frequency Linacs for Hadrontherapy
Ugo Amaldi, Saverio Braccini and Paolo Puggioni ............ 111
Medical Cyclotrons
D.L. Friesel and T.A. Antaya ............................... 133
Synchrotrons for Hadrontherapy
Marco G. Pullia ............................................ 157
Beam Delivery Systems for Particle Radiation Therapy:
Current Status and Recent Developments
J.M. Schippers ............................................. 179
Laser Acceleration of Ions for Radiation Therapy
Toshiki Tajima, Dietrich Habs and Xueqing Yan .............. 201
FFAGs as Accelerators and Beam Delivery Devices for Ion
Cancer Therapy
Dejan Trbojevic ............................................ 229
The Dielectric Wall Accelerator
George J. Caporaso, Yu-Jiuan Chen and Stephen E. Sampayan .. 253
The Supercollider: The Texas Days - A Personal Recollection
of Its Short Life and Demise
Stanley Wojcicki ........................................... 265
A Man for All Seasons: Robert R. Wilson
Edwin L. Goldwasser ........................................ 303
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