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Autor:
Peter R. Almond
Publikováno v:
True Tales of Medical Physics ISBN: 9783030917234
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91724-1_3
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91724-1_3
Publikováno v:
Physics in Medicine and Biology. 50:755-767
The laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) mechanism can accelerate electrons to energies within the 6-20 MeV range desired for therapy application. However, the energy spectrum of LWFA-generated electrons is broad, on the order of tens of MeV. Using ex
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https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/50/5/002
https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/50/5/002
Autor:
Peter R. Almond
For the last half of the 20th century cobalt-60 units were the mainstay of radiation treatments for cancer. This book describes the development of the first cobalt -60 unit in the United States and the man behind it, Leonard Grimmett. Conceptually co
Autor:
Peter R. Almond
Publikováno v:
Cobalt Blues ISBN: 9781461449232
Grimmett’s task was much more than building a cobalt unit. The mission of the MDAH at that time was patient care, research and education, and Grimmett moved to make sure all these were undertaken in his department. His early death in May 1951 meant
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4924-9_9
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4924-9_9
Autor:
Peter R. Almond
Publikováno v:
Cobalt Blues ISBN: 9781461449232
Shortly after his arrival in Houston, Grimmett met Marshall Brucer who was the newly appointed head of the medical division of the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies. Brucer immediately recognized that Grimmett could help him with his program at
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4924-9_8
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4924-9_8
Autor:
Peter R. Almond
Publikováno v:
Cobalt Blues ISBN: 9781461449232
Grimmett became fascinated by artificial radioactivity when it was announced in 1933. He realized that an artificial radioactive isotope might be found to replace radium, and he suggested this in a paper in Nature in 1937 citing radio-sodium as a pos
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4924-9_6
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4924-9_6
Autor:
Peter R. Almond
Publikováno v:
Cobalt Blues ISBN: 9781461449232
The journey that Grimmett took from London to Houston in February 1949 is described primarily from the letters he wrote to his wife during the journey. The difficulties of transatlantic air flight, extreme bad weather and Grimmett’s desire to stop
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4924-9_2
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4924-9_2
Autor:
Peter R. Almond
For the latter half of the 20th century, cobalt-60 units were the mainstay of radiation treatments for cancer. Cobalt Blues describes the development of the first cobalt-60 unit in the United States and the man behind it, Leonard Grimmett. Conceptual
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http://cds.cern.ch/record/1501093
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1501093
Autor:
Peter R. Almond
Publikováno v:
Cobalt Blues ISBN: 9781461449232
The founding of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Hospital in 1941 and the establishment of the Texas Medical Center in 1945 in large, part by the efforts of the M.D. Anderson Foundation are described. Dr. R. Lee Clark was appointed the fi
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4924-9_1
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4924-9_1
Autor:
Peter R. Almond
Publikováno v:
Cobalt Blues ISBN: 9781461449232
When Grimmett arrived in Houston, he was shocked by what he found. The hospital was in temporary quarters in World War II surplus wood huts, housing was difficult, the town compared to Paris was ugly, and he worried about the heat and humidity, and h
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4924-9_7