Introduction to Particle Therapy
An Educational Handbook
$171.25
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2026
Summary
“Introduction to Particle Therapy: An Educational Handbook” provides a clear and accessible overview of modern particle radiation therapy. Aimed at students, physicists and researchers in particle beam therapy, it explains the fundamental physics of proton and heavy-ion beams and how their distinctive depth-dose profiles enable highly targeted cancer treatment with minimal damage to healthy tissue.
It explores the latest, cutting-edge research in accelerator technology, beam-delivery …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032606460 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1032606460 |
| Author: | Panagiota Foka, Joao Seco, Maurizio Vretenar |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | CRC Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 453g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
Panagiota Foka
Dr. Panagiota (Yiota) Foka
Dr. Foka is a senior heavy-ion researcher at GSI, delegated at CERN since 2000. She contributed to the preparation of the ALICE experiment, serving as deputy physics and data quality monitoring coordinator and as a member of the first physics task force. She also co-authored the first LHC publication. Since 2018, she has been contributing to the Next Ion Medical Machine Study CERN group and related activities within EU-supported projects. She is the initiator and coordinator of the PTMC international educational project, developed in collaboration with CERN and DKFZ.
Prof. Joao Seco
Prof. Seco earned his PhD from the University of London’s Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital. After serving as Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, he joined the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg in 2016, where he leads particle beam research. His work spans prompt gamma and particle imaging, FLASH, and SFRT. He is Chair of Medical Physics at Heidelberg University, chairs ESMPE, and serves on AAPM TG359.
Dr. Maurizio Vretenar
Dr. Vretenar is a senior accelerator physicist and project leader at CERN, which he joined in 1988 to work on the design, construction, and operation of linear particle accelerators. He has been project leader for the construction of Linac4, the LHC’s new injector, and later coordinated a series of EU-supported projects for accelerator R&D. His recent work focuses on accelerators for societal applications, particularly for medical use, and he leads CERN’s Next Ion Medical Machine Study.
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