Europe’s first medical heavy-ion machine
NOV 13, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023838
Backreaction : The Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center (HIT)—the first medical heavy-ion machine in Europe—has opened.Close to the GSI facility near Darmstadt , the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center is a dedicated heavy-ion accelerator for deployment in radiotherapy to treat tumors.
Physicist Stefan Scherer briefly takes a look at this new facility and the physics behind it.
© 2009 American Institute of Physics
