Radiobiological experiments with accelerated heavy charged particles have been stimulated mainly by the medical application of heavy ion beams in radiotherapy, radiography, microsurgery and diagnostic application. Some of these new medical applications are still in the phase of pilot studies or animaJ experiments, but some others, like the treatment of the ocular melanomas, have become a routine procedure at Berkeley and Harvard.
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