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Chapter 1. Proton Therapy: History and Rational Harald Paganetti Chapter 2. Physics of Proton Interactions in Matter Bernard Gottschalk Chapter 3. Proton Accelerators Marco Schippers Chapter 4. Characteristics of Clinical Proton Beams Hsiao-Ming and Jacob Flanz Chapter 5. Beam Delivery Using Passive Scattering Roelf Slopsema Chapter 6. Particle Beam Scanning Jacob Flanz Chapter 7.Secondary Radiation Production and Shieldingat Proton Therapy Facilities Nisy Elizabeth Ipe Chapter 8. Monte Carlo Simulations Harald Paganetti Chapter 9. Detectors, Relative Dosimetry, and Microdosimetry Hugo Palmans Chapter 10. Absolute and Reference Dosimetry Hugo Palmans Chapter 11. Acceptance Testing and Commissioning Zuofeng Li, Roelf Slopsema, Stella Flamp ouri, and Daniel K. Yeung Chapter 12.Quality Assurance Juliane Daartz Chapter 13.Monitor Unit Calibration Timothy C. Zhu, Haibo Lin, and Jiajian Shen Chapter 14.Dose Calculation Algorithms Ben Clasie, Harald Paganetti, and Hanne M. Kooy Chapter 15.Physics of Treatment Planning for Single-Field Uniform Dose Martij n Engelsman and Lei Dong Chapter 16.Physics of Treatment Planning Using Scanned Beams Anthony Lomax Chapter 17. Precision and Uncertainties in Planning and Delivery Daniel K. Yeung and Jatinder R. Palta Chapter 18.Precision and Uncertainties for Moving Targets Christoph Bert, Martij n Engelsman, and Antje C. Knopf Chapter 19.Treatment-Planning Optimization Alexei V. Trofim ov, Davi d Craft, and Jan Unkelbach Chapter 20.Proton Image Guidance Jon Kruse Chapter21. In Vivo Dose Verification Katia Parodi Chapter 22.The Physics of Proton Biology Harald Paganetti Chapter23.Fully Exploiting the Benefits of Protons: Using Risk Models for Normal Tissue Complications in Treatment Optimization Peter van Luijk and Marco Schippers