Prof.
Alejandro Mazal
(Centre de protonthérapie (Orsay) - Institut Curie)
27/09/2017, 19:30
Talk
This session, open to the non-expert public, introduces physical and clinical aspects of hadrontherapy, as an example on how basic investigation may produce applied results.
In contrast with conventional X-ray radiotherapy, where energy is continuously deposited before reaching the tumor, in hadrontherapy the majority of this energy is deposited in single point, thus avoiding damage in the...