Initial Performance of the Stanford Medical Pion Generator
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 122 (2) , 527-529
- https://doi.org/10.1148/122.2.527
Abstract
A novel, cylindrical geometry, superconducting pion channel was constructed. It can simultaneously deliver up to 60 radially converging pion beams of the same mean momentum but with individually variable momentum spread (0.0-4.3%). Virtually no tuning of the pion beam is required. Preliminary tests demonstrated many of the performance characteristics which facilitate the treatment of selected human tumors.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: