The Bevalac -- An Economical Facility for Very Energetic Heavy Particle Research

Ghiorso, A.; Grunder, Hermann A.; Hartsough, Walter D.; Lambertson, G.; Lofgren, E.J.; Lou, K.; Main, Robert M.; Mobley, R. M.; Morgado, R.E.; Salsig, William W.; Selph, F.

doi:10.1109/tns.1973.4327069

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“…58 Clinical trials for treating human cancer using neon and other ions have been in progress at the LBL Bevalac since 1977. 3 • 4 Future clinical trials using light and heavy ions are planned in Darmstadt, Germany and Chiba, Japan, as discussed in Sec.…”

Section: Ia3 Clinical Trial Using Heavier Ionsmentioning

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Instrumentation for treatment of cancer using proton and light-ion beams

Chu

Ludewigt

Renner

1993

Review of Scientific Instruments

285

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Clinical trials using accelerated heavy charged-particle beams for treating cancer and other diseases have been performed for nearly four decades. Recently there have been worldwide efforts to construct hospital-based medically dedicated proton or light-ion accelerator facilities. To make such accelerated heavy charged-particle beams clinically useful, specialized instruments must be developed to modify the physical characteristics of the particle beams in order to optimize their biological and clinical effects. This article reviews the beam modifying devices and associated dosimetric equipment developed specifically for controlling and monitoring the clinical beams.

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Section: Ia3 Clinical Trial Using Heavier Ionsmentioning

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Instrumentation for treatment of cancer using proton and light-ion beams

Chu

Ludewigt

Renner

1993

Review of Scientific Instruments

285

186

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“…This was accomplished at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) by using a high energy linear accelerator (the HILAC) as an ion source for the high energy Bevatron (Ghiorso et al, 1973). The permanent installation of the HILAC source into the Bevatron created the Bevalac accelerator complex, which was completed in 1974.…”

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Heavy-Ion Radiobiology: Cellular Studies

Blakely

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Curtis

et al. 1984

Advances in Radiation Biology

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“…Considerable work has been done on the physical and accelerator beam aspects of particle radiography, 5 3. In all patients examined, whenever x-ray mammography detected abnormal densities within breast tissue, the carbon-ion radiographs demonstr~ted the same abnormal density as well.…”

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<title>Heavy-Ion Imaging Applied To Medicine</title>

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Tobias

et al. 1980

Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine VIII

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Heavy particle radiography is a newly developed noninvasive low dose imaging procedure with increased resolution of minute density differences in soft t sues of the body. The method utilizes accelerated high energy ions, primarily carbon and neon, at the BEVALAC accelerator at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The research'program applied to medicine utilizes heavy-ion radiography for low dose mammography, for treatment planning for cancer patients, and for imaging and accurate densitometry of skeletal structures and brain and spinal neoplasms. The presentation will be illustrated with clinical cases under study. Discussion will include the potential of heavy-ion imaging, and particularly reconstruction tomography, as an adjunct to existing diagnostic imaging procedures in medicine, both for the applications to the diagnosis, management and treatment of eli nical cancer 1n man, but also for the early detection of small soft tissue tumors at low radiation dose.

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The Bevalac -- An Economical Facility for Very Energetic Heavy Particle Research

Cited by 29 publications

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Instrumentation for treatment of cancer using proton and light-ion beams

Instrumentation for treatment of cancer using proton and light-ion beams

Heavy-Ion Radiobiology: Cellular Studies

<title>Heavy-Ion Imaging Applied To Medicine</title>

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