Accelerating protons to therapeutic energies with ultraintense, ultraclean, and ultrashort laser pulses
dc.contributor.author | Bulanov, Stepan S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Brantov, Andrei | |
dc.contributor.author | Bychenkov, Valery Yu. | |
dc.contributor.author | Chvykov, Vladimir | |
dc.contributor.author | Kalinchenko, Galina | |
dc.contributor.author | Matsuoka, Takeshi | |
dc.contributor.author | Rousseau, Pascal | |
dc.contributor.author | Reed, Stephen | |
dc.contributor.author | Yanovsky, Victor | |
dc.contributor.author | Krushelnick, Karl | |
dc.contributor.author | Litzenberg, Dale William | |
dc.contributor.author | Maksimchuk, Anatoly | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-06T20:47:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-06T20:47:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bulanov, Stepan S.; Brantov, Andrei; Bychenkov, Valery Yu.; Chvykov, Vladimir; Kalinchenko, Galina; Matsuoka, Takeshi; Rousseau, Pascal; Reed, Stephen; Yanovsky, Victor; Krushelnick, Karl; Litzenberg, Dale William; Maksimchuk, Anatoly (2008). "Accelerating protons to therapeutic energies with ultraintense, ultraclean, and ultrashort laser pulses." Medical Physics 35(5): 1770-1776. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0094-2405 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2473-4209 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/134921 | |
dc.publisher | American Association of Physicists in Medicine | |
dc.publisher | Wiley Periodicals, Inc. | |
dc.subject.other | Proton therapy | |
dc.subject.other | Cancer | |
dc.subject.other | Therapeutics | |
dc.subject.other | Radiation therapy | |
dc.subject.other | Ion radiation effects | |
dc.subject.other | Pulse propagation | |
dc.subject.other | Therapeutic applications, including brachytherapy | |
dc.subject.other | high‐speed optical techniques | |
dc.subject.other | photodynamic therapy | |
dc.subject.other | plasma light propagation | |
dc.subject.other | plasma simulation | |
dc.subject.other | proton accelerators | |
dc.subject.other | ion acceleration | |
dc.subject.other | laser‐plasma interaction | |
dc.subject.other | proton therapy | |
dc.subject.other | Protons | |
dc.subject.other | Coulomb explosion | |
dc.subject.other | Particle‐in‐cell method | |
dc.subject.other | Electric fields | |
dc.title | Accelerating protons to therapeutic energies with ultraintense, ultraclean, and ultrashort laser pulses | |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Medicine (General) | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | FOCUS Center and Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | FOCUS Center and Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | FOCUS Center and Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 | |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/134921/1/mp0112.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1118/1.2900112 | |
dc.identifier.source | Medical Physics | |
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