Laser Particle Acceleration for Cancer Therapy (IMAGE)

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Laser Particle Acceleration for Cancer Therapy

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High-performance lasers are very promising and compact proton sources which could be used, for example, in future cancer therapies. With the DRACO laser, HZDR physicists demonstrate for the first time ever that protons are able to absorb energy very efficiently during the first acceleration phase.

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Karl Zeil / <i>Nature Communications</i>

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