An image of the secondary beam "cocktail" produced at a cyclotron center in Japan for a study of Mg-40, an exotic isotope of magnesium. The X axis shows the mass-to-charge ration, and the Y axis shows ...
Heavy ion therapy is a promising cancer treatment technique, with beams of heavy ions delivering sharper Bragg peaks and less lateral scattering than a proton beam. But as tumour targeting gets more ...