Particle Therapy 2017

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Some protons are more equal than others
In‐vitro data indicate that proton‐RBE increases significantly at the
end of the Bragg‐peak (i.e. at low energies)
Residual
range: ~25 m
(Paganetti 2002,
mono-energetic
Protons, in-vitro)