Main description:

- Presents a practical and accessible journey from application requirements to technical solutions

- Provides a pedagogic treatment of the underlying technology

- Describes how safety is to be considered in the application of this technology and how safety and quality can be factored into the overall system.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction. Chapter 2 Evolution of Medical Particles. Chapter 3 A Personal Historical Perspective. Chapter 4 Flow of Requirements. Chapter 5 External Beam Systems. Chapter 6 How to Damage Unwanted Cells. Chapter 7 Exponentials. Chapter 8 Relativistic Dynamics. Chapter 9 Charged Particle Interactions in Matter. Chapter 10 Review of Charged Particle Motion. Chapter 11 Clinical Perspective of Charged Particle Therapy Beams. Chapter 12 Three-Dimensional Dose Conformation. Chapter 13 Accelerator Systems. Chapter 14 Gantries. Chapter 15 Safety in Radiotherapy. Chapter 16 Sensitivities and Tolerances: Scattering. Chapter 17 From Clinical to Technical Tolerances: Scanning. Chapter 18 Afterword. Acknowledgments. Appendix A: Particle Therapy Facilities (as of June 2021). Appendix B: Some Useful Constants. Appendix C: Hazard Topics. Appendix D: Beam QA Frequency Possibility. Appendix E: Some Element and Compound Parameters. Index.