Invited Review Article: “Hands-on” laser-driven ion acceleration: A primer for laser-driven source
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It has been known for about sixty years that proton and heavy ion therapy is a very powerful
radiation procedure for treating tumors. It has an innate ability to irradiate tumors with greater …

The paper examines the prospects of using laser plasma as a source of high-energy ions for
the purpose of hadron beam therapy—an approach which is based on both theory and …

Proton beams are a promising tool for the improvement of radiotherapy of cancer, and
compact laser-driven proton radiation (LDPR) is discussed as an alternative to established …

The recent advancements in the field of laser-driven particle acceleration have made Laser-
driven Ion Beam Therapy (L-IBT) an attractive alternative to the conventional particle therapy …

Intense laser-driven proton pulses, inherently broadband and highly divergent, pose a
challenge to established beamline concepts on the path to application-adapted irradiation …

A laser-driven, multi-MeV-range ion beamline has been installed at the GSI Helmholtz
center for heavy ion research. The high-power laser PHELIX drives the very short …

The generation of intense ion beams from high-intensity laser-generated plasmas has been
the focus of research for the last decade. In the LIGHT collaboration the expertise of heavy …

An improved method to unfold the space-resolved proton energy distribution function of
laser-accelerated proton beams using a layered, radiochromic film (RCF) detector stack has …

The study of radiation biology on laser-based accelerators is most interesting due to the
unique irradiation conditions they can produce, in terms of peak current and duration of the …