“…by reports from others either developing CIRT cases or already involved in heavier ion beam applications. 21,27,31,36,45,50,69,121,148,[158][159][160][161][162] Three broad research categories can be used; pre-clinical, clinical and non-clinical, where the latter includes flexible opportunities to respond to changing national research priorities, for example, in space physics, materials science or nuclear science and technology. 19,35,159,160 An impression of the potential breadth of topics and opportunity is given in Table 2, where indicative examples are simply listed, since further detail is outside the scope of this review and will evolve with time.…”