Proton therapy special feature: introductory editorial

Kathryn D Held¹, Antony J Lomax^{2

3}, Esther G C Troost^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Center for Proton Therapy, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland.
³ Department of Physics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
⁵ OncoRay - National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Dresden, Germany.

Editorial

Kathryn D Held et al. Br J Radiol. 2020 Mar.

. 2020 Mar;93(1107):20209004.

doi: 10.1259/bjr.20209004.

Kathryn D Held¹, Antony J Lomax^{2

3}, Esther G C Troost^{4

5}

¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Center for Proton Therapy, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland.
³ Department of Physics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
⁵ OncoRay - National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Dresden, Germany.

No abstract available

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