Fighting Cancer on Earth and in Space Using High-Energy Protons (IMAGE)

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Fighting Cancer on Earth and in Space Using High-Energy Protons

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Left: production rate as a function of proton energy of parent radioisotopes selenium-72 (Se-72) (1) & germanium-68 (Ge-68) (2). Right, a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image of a patient with metastatic colon cancer, obtained using gallium-68 (Ga-68)

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Images courtesy of Morgan B. Fox, University of California, Berkeley (left) and Christophe M. Deroose, University Hospitals Leuven (right)

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Images courtesy of Morgan B. Fox, University of California, Berkeley (left) and Christophe M. Deroose, University Hospitals Leuven (right)

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