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When the first companies took on the challenge of designing and building commercial ion beam systems dedicated to treating patients in the 1990s, the technologies for particle acceleration, transport, and guidance had long been established. Their challenge was to develop the technologies needed to harness ion beams in a medical setting to routinely provide essentially the same capabilities of photon-based radiotherapy (RT). Having met those challenges, a variety of commercial particle beam systems are now being marketed.
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Jongen, Y. (2012). Commercial Ion Beam Therapy Systems. In: Linz, U. (eds) Ion Beam Therapy. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, vol 320. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21414-1_22
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