Medical cyclotron: Operational aspects and its clinical utility

• Main Authors: Rajeev Kumar (Author), Arunav Kumar (Author), Santosh Kumar (Author), Sanjay Kumar Suman (Author), Nihar R. Biswas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer -Medknow Publications, 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1930 at the University of California, Berkeley and patented in 1932. Lawrence was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 for this invention. It is based on a combination of radiofrequency acceleration and bending of charg...