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| THPVA134 | Coupled Longitudinal and Transverse Beam Dynamics Studies for Hadron Therapy Linacs | 4772 |
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| Precise proton therapy planning can be assisted by augmenting conventional medical imaging techniques with proton computed tomography (pCT). For adults this requires an incident proton energy up to at least 330 MeV, an energy not readily accessible using cyclotrons. We are presently constructing a prototype of the ProBE 54 MV/m 3GHz post-cyclotron booster linac as a compact method to achieve 330 MeV in the context of the Christie Hospital proton therapy centre, to be tested in the research room there. In this paper, we present beam dynamics studies and tracking simulations of proton beams through the booster region. The longitudinal and transverse particle transmission is calculated from tracking simulations and compared to theoretical models to help understand how best to optimise the optics design through the ProBE region. | ||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-THPVA134 | |
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| THPVA135 | ProBE: Proton Boosting Extension for Imaging and Therapy | 4776 |
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Funding: This work was funded by STFC The ProBE linac aims at accelerating protons from a particle therapy cyclotron to the c.330 MeV required for proton tomography. To obtain the c. 55 MV/m gradients required to achieve 100 MeV gain in a suitably short distance, we propose the use of a high-gradient S-band side-coupled standing-wave structure. In this paper we discuss the progress toward the testing of the prototype at the S-box facility at CERN. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-THPVA135 | |
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