Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration Towards Radiobiology and Medicine

1. Lasers Offer New Tools to Radiobiology and Radiotherapy
Antonio Giulietti, Toshiki Tajima

Part I. Updating Radiobiology, Radiotherapy and Radiation Safety

2. Laser-Plasma Accelerators Based Ultrafast Radiation Biophysics
Yann A. Gauduel

3. Cyberknife, Dose Fractioning for Clinical Protocols
Raphaëlle Mouttet-Audouard, Thomas Lacornerie, Eric Lartigau

4. Radiation Therapy Towards Laser-Driven Particle Beams: An “OMICS” Approach in Radiobiology
Luigi Minafra, Valentina Bravatà, Francesco Paolo Cammarata, Giusi Irma Forte

5. Radiological Safety in Laser Facilities
Andrew Simons

Part II. Updating Laser-driven Electron Acceleration and Dosimetry

6. Generation of Multi-GeV Electron Beams and Bio-medical Applications
Tae Moon Jeong, Jongmin Lee

7. Ionization Induced Electron Injection in Laser Wakefield Acceleration
Min Chen, Zheng-Ming Sheng

8. All-Optical X-Ray and γ-Ray Sources from Ultraintense Laser-Matter Interactions
Leonida A. Gizzi

9. Dosimetry of Laser-Driven Electron Beams for Radiobiology and Medicine
Luca Labate, Debora Lamia, Giorgio Russo

Part III. Updating Laser-driven Ion Acceleration for Biomedical Applications

10. Laser-Driven Ion Accelerators: State of the Art and Applications
Marco Borghesi, Andrea Macchi

11. Biological Responses Triggered by Laser-Driven Ion Beams
Akifumi Yogo

12. High Resolution Ion and Electron Beam Radiography with Laser-Driven Clustered Sources
Anatoly Faenov, Tatiana Pikuz, Ryosuke Kodama

13. Recent Progress in Laser Ion Acceleration
Toshiki Tajima

Keywords: Physics, Medical and Radiation Physics, Nuclear Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics