Principle design of a protontherapy, rapid-cycling, variable energy spiral FFAG

Principle design of a protontherapy, rapid-cycling, variable energy spiral FFAG

The FFAG method is nowadays seen as a potential candidate for the acceleration of protons and light ions for hadrontherapy. This has motivated the design of a principle protontherapy installation, in the frame of the RACCAM project. This article presents the design study, a medical spiral scaling FF...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 2009, Vol.602 (2), p.293-305
Hauptverfasser: Antoine, S., Autin, B., Beeckman, W., Collot, J., Conjat, M., Forest, F., Fourrier, J., Froidefond, E., Lancelot, J.L., Mandrillon, J., Mandrillon, P., Méot, F., Mori, Y., Neuvéglise, D., Ohmori, C., Pasternak, J., Planche, T.
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Sprache:eng
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Accelerator Physics
FFAG
Fixed field accelerator
Hadrontherapy
Medical accelerator
Physics
Spiral scaling FFAG
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Zusammenfassung:The FFAG method is nowadays seen as a potential candidate for the acceleration of protons and light ions for hadrontherapy. This has motivated the design of a principle protontherapy installation, in the frame of the RACCAM project. This article presents the design study, a medical spiral scaling FFAG assembly, capable of producing variable energy proton beams, with potentially high repetition and dose delivery rates.
ISSN:0168-9002
1872-9576
DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2009.01.025