Bevatron/Bevalac user's handbook: biology and medicine. Revision

Technical Report · Sun Mar 31 23:00:00 EST 1985

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5686466· OSTI ID:5686466

The Bevalac Biomedical Facility develops a source of near-relativistic heavy ions for applications to radiation biology, radiation therapy and diagnostic radiology. Pulsed beams of high LET heavy ions with variable pulse width, frequency, intensity and energy are produced and delivered to the Biomedical Facility by the Bevatron/Bevalac accelerator complex. Dosimetry equipment under computer control provides accurate determinations of absorbed doses in all regions of the Bragg curve. Depth-dose modifying devices and precise specimen positioning equipment are available. Animal housing and tissue culture facilities are convenient to the experimenter. This handbook is designed to provide the user with the relevant information for planning, proposing and executing an experiment.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 5686466
• Report Number(s): LBL-PUB-101-Rev.; ON: DE85013909
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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