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HEAVY-ION IMAGING APPLIED TO MEDICINE [electronic resource].

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Berkeley, Calif. : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1980.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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28 pages : digital, PDF file
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary:
Heavy particle radiography is a newly developed noninvasive low dose imaging procedure with increased resolution of minute density differences in soft tissues of the body. The method utilizes accelerated high energy ions, primarily carbon and neon, at the BEVALAC accelerator at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The research program applied to medicine utilizes heavy-ion radiography for low dose mammography, for treatment planning for cancer patients, and for imaging and accurate densitometry of skeletal structures and brain and spinal neoplasms. The presentation will be illustrated with clinical cases under study. Discussion will include the potential of heavy-ion imaging, and particularly reconstruction tomography, as an adjunct to existing diagnostic imaging procedures in medicine, both for the applications to the diagnosis, management and treatment of clinical cancer in man, but also for the early detection of small soft tissue tumors at low radiation dose.
Report Numbers:
E 1.99:lbl-10543
lbl-10543
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Published through SciTech Connect.
02/01/1980.
"lbl-10543"
SPIE Volume 233, Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine VIII (1980), pp. 255-263 0233 ISSN 0277-786X FT
Tobias, C.A.; Holley, W.R.; Benton, E.V.; Fabrikant, J.I.; Capp, M.P.
Funding Information:
DE-AC02-05CH11231
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