Keyword: isotope-production
Paper Title Other Keywords Page
WEOBB1 Recirculated Electron Beam Photo-Converter for Rare Isotope Production target, electron, photon, TRIUMF 2526
 
  • A. Laxdal, R.A. Baartman, I.V. Bylinskii, S. Ganesh, A. Gottberg, F.W. Jones, P. Kunz, L.A. Lopera, T. Planche, A. Sen
    TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
 
  The TRIUMF 50 MeV electron linac has the potential to drive cw beams of up to 0.5 MW to the ARIEL photo-fission facility for rare isotope science. Due to the cooling requirements, the use of a thick Bremsstrahlung target for electron to photon conversion is a difficult technical challenge in this intensity regime. Here we present a different concept in which electrons are injected into a small storage ring to make multiple passes through a thin internal photo-conversion target, eventually depositing their remaining energy in a cooled central core absorber. We discuss the design requirements and propose a set of design parameters for the Fixed Field Alternating Gradient (FFAG) ring. Using particle simulation models, we estimate various beam properties, as well as the MPS for the electron loss.  
slides icon Slides WEOBB1 [4.650 MB]  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-WEOBB1  
Export • reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)  
 
THPVA130 Modelling PET Radionuclides Production in Tissue and External Targets Using Geant4 proton, target, cyclotron, TRIUMF 4757
 
  • A. Amin, R.J. Barlow
    IIAA, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
  • C.M. Hoehr, C. Lindsay
    TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
  • A. Infantino
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The Proton Therapy Facility in TRIUMF provides 74 MeV protons extracted from a 500 MeV H cyclotron for ocular melanoma treatments. During treatment, positron emitting radionuclides such as C-11, O-15 and N-13 are produced in patient tissue. Using PET scanners, the isotopic activity distribution can be measured for in-vivo range verification. A second cyclotron, the TR13, provides 13 MeV protons onto liquid targets for the production of PET radionuclides such as F-18, N-13 or Ga-68, for medical applications. The aim of this work was to validate Geant4 against FLUKA and experimental measurements for production of the above-mentioned isotopes using the two cyclotrons. The results show variable degrees of agreement. For proton therapy, the proton-range agreement was within 2 mm for C-11 activity, whereas N-13 disagreed. For liquid targets at the TR13 the average absolute deviation ratio between FLUKA and experiment was 1.9±2.8, whereas the average absolute deviation ratio between Geant4 and experiment was 0.6±0.4. This is due to the uncertainties present in experimentally determined reaction cross sections.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-THPVA130  
Export • reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)  
 
FRXBA1 Compact and Efficient Accelerators for Radioisotope Production cyclotron, target, electron, linac 4824
 
  • C. Oliver
    CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
 
  The production in an efficient way of radioisotopes for medical use is crucial. With the closing in the next ten years of nuclear reactors the problem of the production of some of them is being critical. New approaches of producing these radioisotopes via accelerators are being developed. In the other hand a big effort is being made for making the accelerators for the production of radioisotopes more compact, efficient and with an optimized cost. This paper describes the recent advances in this kind of accelerator techniques.  
slides icon Slides FRXBA1 [2.797 MB]  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-FRXBA1  
Export • reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)