CLUSTER: A high-frequency H-mode coupled cavity linac for low and medium energies

Amaldi, U.; Citterio, A.; Crescenti, M; Giuliacci, A.; Tronci, Cesare; Zennaro, R.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2007.05.208

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“…However, the use of 15-MeV proton beams produced by small commercial cyclotrons will also be possible, thanks to the 1.5-GHz CLUSTER (Coupled-cavity Linac Using Transverse Electric Radial field). 80 This accelerating structure can boost the proton energy up to the value appropriate for injection into LIBO. Regarding carbon ion therapy, the high-frequency, fast-cycling linear accelerator called Carbon Booster for Therapy in Oncology (CABOTO) has been designed for the treatment of moving organs with rapid tumour scanning in depth.…”

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Particle therapy of moving targets—the strategies for tumour motion monitoring and moving targets irradiation

Kubiak¹

2016

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Particle therapy of moving targets is still a great challenge. The motion of organs situated in the thorax and abdomen strongly affects the precision of proton and carbon ion radiotherapy. The motion is responsible for not only the dislocation of the tumour but also the alterations in the internal density along the beam path, which influence the range of particle beams. Furthermore, in case of pencil beam scanning, there is an interference between the target movement and dynamic beam delivery. This review presents the strategies for tumour motion monitoring and moving target irradiation in the context of hadron therapy. Methods enabling the direct determination of tumour position (fluoroscopic imaging of implanted radio-opaque fiducial markers, electromagnetic detection of inserted transponders and ultrasonic tumour localization systems) are presented. Attention is also drawn to the techniques which use external surrogate motion for an indirect estimation of target displacement during irradiation. The role of respiratory-correlated CT [four-dimensional CT (4DCT)] in the determination of motion pattern prior to the particle treatment is also considered. An essential part of the article is the review of the main approaches to moving target irradiation in hadron therapy: gating, rescanning (repainting), gated rescanning and tumour tracking. The advantages, drawbacks and development trends of these methods are discussed. The new accelerators, called "cyclinacs", are presented, because their application to particle therapy will allow making a breakthrough in the 4D spot scanning treatment of moving organs.

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Section: Tumour Trackingmentioning

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Particle therapy of moving targets—the strategies for tumour motion monitoring and moving targets irradiation

Kubiak¹

2016

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“…7 and in Ref. 53) can accelerate low β particles with greater efficiency and stability than the classical DTL.…”

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“…In order to further increase the shunt impedance, at 3 GHz the tanks consist of CH cavities, while, at lower frequencies, classical IH cavities could also be adopted. The coupling cell of the bridge couplers resonates in the TEM 011 mode and their geometrical dimensions have been chosen so that the PMQs can be positioned on axis [53,70].…”

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High Frequency Linacs for Hadrontherapy

Amaldi¹,

Braccini

Puggioni³

2009

Rev. Accl. Sci. Tech.

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The use of radiofrequency linacs for hadrontherapy was proposed about 20 years ago, but only recently has it been understood that the high repetition rate together with the possibility of very rapid energy variations offers an optimal solution to the present challenge of hadrontherapy: "paint" a moving tumor target in three dimensions with a pencil beam. Moreover, the fact that the energy, and thus the particle range, can be electronically adjusted implies that no absorber-based energy selection system is needed, which, in the case of cyclotron-based centers, is the cause of material activation. On the other side, a linac consumes less power than a synchrotron. The first part of this article describes the main advantages of high frequency linacs in hadrontherapy, the early design studies, and the construction and test of the first high-gradient prototype which accelerated protons. The second part illustrates some technical issues relevant to the design of copper standing wave accelerators, the present developments, and two designs of linac-based proton and carbon ion facilities. Superconductive linacs are not discussed, since nanoampere currents are sufficient for therapy. In the last two sections, a comparison with circular accelerators and an overview of future projects are presented.

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Conceptual RF design of 750 MHz IH cavities for β = 0.10–0.15 ion beams in medical accelerators

Giner Navarro,

Moreno,

Gavela

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Nuclear Engineering and Technology

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CLUSTER: A high-frequency H-mode coupled cavity linac for low and medium energies

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

Particle therapy of moving targets—the strategies for tumour motion monitoring and moving targets irradiation

Particle therapy of moving targets—the strategies for tumour motion monitoring and moving targets irradiation

High Frequency Linacs for Hadrontherapy

Conceptual RF design of 750 MHz IH cavities for β = 0.10–0.15 ion beams in medical accelerators

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