Skip to main content

Radiation Hazards to Crews of Interplanetary Missions Biological Issues and Research Strategies (1996) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

Appendix C Beam Sources
Pages 69-71

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 69...
... The proposal was reviewed and approved in 1991 by a panel with representatives from NASA and DOE. The proposed BAF would include a switching magnet and focusing magnets that could abstract ion pulses from their circular orbit into a to-be-constructed straight beam line and irradiation room suitable for biological applications and physical studies of energy loss and spallation products from HZE particles traversing shielding material.
Read the entire page →
From page 70...
... Proton Therapy Facility, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California The primary mission of the Loma Linda facility is cancer therapy, using protons with energies up to 250 MeV. Eight beam lines enter five shielded rooms.
Read the entire page →
From page 71...
... sources and extensive animal and tissue culture facilities are readily available at HIMAC. If Fe beams became available at this facility and appropriate agreements were developed, the HIMAC could present a viable option for NASA to acquire more of the beam time needed to perform the research recommended in the main text of this report.
Read the entire page →

Key Terms

  • physics research
  • main text
  • using protons
  • proton therapy
  • loma linda

  • radiation biology
  • heavy ion
  • northeast proton
  • hze particles
  • extensive animal

  • therapy center
  • brookhaven national
  • research strategies
  • culture facilities
  • strategies suggested

  • sequentially delivering
  • research run
  • physical dosimetry
  • beam time
  • supply reliable

  • cancer therapy
  • nuclear physics
  • beam delivery
  • lines enter
  • viable option

  • energy loss
  • ion collider
  • fundamental radiobiology
  • significant policy
  • radiobiology experiments


    • This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
    More information on Chapter Skim is available.