High Frequency Linacs for Hadrontherapy

Amaldi, U.; Braccini, S.; Puggioni, Paolo

doi:10.1142/9789814299350_0006

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“…The idea of using a LINAC for particle therapy has been considered for some time, and conceptually developed by the TERA foundation at CERN. [55][56][57] The CERN spin-off company Applications of Detectors and Accelerators to Medicine (ADAM SA) is now building a full LINAC proton therapy system called LINAC for Image-Guided Hadron Therapy (LIGHT). The major components of the LIGHT accelerator are shown in Fig.…”

Section: D New Horizons: Linear Acceleratorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

New horizons in particle therapy systems

Farr¹,

Flanz

Gerbershagen

et al. 2018

Medical Physics

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Particle therapy is rapidly expanding and claiming its position as the treatment modality of choice in teletherapy. However, the rate of expansion continues to be restricted by the size and cost of the associated particle therapy systems and their operation. Additional technical limitations such as dose delivery rate, treatment process efficiency, and achievement of superior dose conformity potentially hinder the complete fulfillment of the promise of particle therapy. These topics are explored in this review considering the current state of particle therapy systems and what improvements are required to overcome the current challenges. Beam production systems (accelerators), beam transport systems including gantries and beam delivery systems are addressed explicitly in these regards.

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Section: D New Horizons: Linear Acceleratorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

New horizons in particle therapy systems

Farr¹,

Flanz

Gerbershagen

et al. 2018

Medical Physics

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“…Linear accelerators (linacs) historically pre-date all the accelerator types mentioned so far [58], Wideroe having first proposed the concept in the 1920s to overcome the limitations of static voltages [83]. [84,85,86,87,88], and the TERA LIBO side-coupled structure has been adopted as the technology for the Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) linacbased solution presently under construction at CERN. Similar to other applications of linacs one issue is about beam injection into such high-frequency structures.…”

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Current and future accelerator technologies for charged particle therapy

Owen

Lomax

Jolly

2016

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A:

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The past few years have seen significant developments both of the technologies available for proton and other charged particle therapies, and of the number and spread of therapy centres. In this review we give an overview of these technology developments, and outline the principal challenges and opportunities we see as important in the next decade. Notable amongst these is the ever-increasing use of superconductivity both in particle sources and for treatment delivery, which is likely to greatly increase the accessibility of charged particle therapy treatments to hospital centres worldwide.

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“…An optimal delivery system should be based on an effective measuring device and should allow the use of any combination of the above mentioned three approaches: respiratory gating, active angular/energy feedbacks and multipainting. This is one of the most important frontiers of particle therapy [21].…”

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Present challenges in hadrontherapy techniques

Amaldi

Braccini

2011

Eur. Phys. J. Plus

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Hadrontherapy is a high-precision technique in cancer radiation therapy, which allows obtaining a superior conformal treatment with respect to photons used in conventional radiation therapy. To reach this ambitious goal without reducing the patient throughput needed in a hospital-based environment, the physical and radiobiological properties of charged hadrons, protons and carbon ions in particular, have to be exploited at best, making use of the most modern technologies issued from research in nuclear and particle physics. In the present days, we are assisting to a continuous technological challenge, leading to the conception and to the development of innovative methods and instruments. In this paper, the most relevant challenges in dose delivery systems, gantries, imaging, quality assurance and particle accelerators are reviewed.

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High Frequency Linacs for Hadrontherapy

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New horizons in particle therapy systems

New horizons in particle therapy systems

Current and future accelerator technologies for charged particle therapy

Present challenges in hadrontherapy techniques

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