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International Journal of High-Energy Physics

Head of first patient


A section through the head of the GSI's first patient. It is overlaid with the physical dose distribution for a beam incident from the right. Critical structures like the brain stem, shown by a green line, are largely untouched by the beam. On the same day a similar treatment was performed with the beam incident from the left, and the whole treatment stretched over 20 consecutive days.

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