Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration Towards Radiobiology and Medicine [Hardcover]

This book deals with the new method of laser-driven acceleration for application to radiation biophysics and medicine. It provides multidisciplinary contributions from world leading scientist in order to assess the state of the art of innovative tools for radiation biology research and medical applications of ionizing radiation. The book contains insightful contributions on highly topical aspects of spatio-temporal radiation biophysics, evolving over several orders of magnitude, typically from femtosecond and sub-micrometer scales. Particular attention is devoted to the emerging technology of laser-driven particle accelerators and their application to spatio-temporal radiation biology and medical physics, customization of non-conventional and selective radiotherapy and optimized radioprotection protocols.From the Contents: Part I Laser driven particle acceleration: From experiments to devices.- Ultra-intense lasers and particle acceleration: past, present and future.- Part II Biophysical studies with laser driven particle sources.- Part III Synchrotron, ion accelerator and microbeam.- Synchrotron source: dosimetry and pre-clinical trials.

Antonio Giulietti is a physicist operating at INO (NationalInstitute of Optics, Italy). He has been CNR Research Director and Head of the Unit Adriano Gozzini of INO. He founded ILIL (Intense Laser Irradiation  Laboratory) in the CNR Campus of Pisa whichhas been operating for more than 20 years with scientific output andinternational collaboration making ILIL a primary reference in the domain oflaser-plasmas. AG is author of more than 200 papers published on internationalrefereed journals, mainly in the field of laser and plasma physics, plasmainstabilities relevant to Inertial Fusion, radiation from plasmas, laser-drivenparticle acceleration and their biomedical potential. AG has organized andchaired a large number of international conferences on these topics. He ismember of the International Advisory Board of thlCÅ