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TY - CONF AU - Kourkafas, G. AU - Bundesmann, J. AU - Denker, A. AU - Fanselow, T. AU - Heufelder, J. AU - Röhrich, J. AU - Weber, A. ED - Liu, Lin ED - Byrd, John M. ED - Neuenschwander, Regis T. ED - Picoreti, Renan ED - Schaa, Volker R. W. TI - Acceleration and Measurement of Alpha Particles and Hydrogen Molecular Ions with the HZB Cyclotron J2 - Proc. of IPAC2021, Campinas, SP, Brazil, 24-28 May 2021 CY - Campinas, SP, Brazil T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 12 LA - english AB - The HZB cyclotron has treated more than 4000 patients with eye tumors using protons. The accelerator can also provide heavier ions which could be suitable for ocular radiation therapy. Helium ions exhibit less lateral spread, increased relative biological effectiveness and a sharper Bragg-Peak compared to protons of the same range, while minimizing nuclear fragmentation and thus excessive dose downstream the irradiated volume compared to more heavy ions. When accelerating fully stripped helium ions (alpha particles), hydrogen molecular ions can also be accelerated to the same energy with a small tuning of the machine due to having almost the same mass-to-charge ratio, yielding a proton beam of double current after the beam exits the vacuum window towards the target. The acceleration and characterization of these two ion species are described in this paper, suggesting the feasibility of a corresponding clinical cyclotron for ocular or even deep-seated tumors. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1264 EP - 1266 KW - cyclotron KW - radiation KW - proton KW - vacuum KW - scattering DA - 2021/08 PY - 2021 SN - 2673-5490 SN - 978-3-95450-214-1 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-MOPAB419 UR - https://jacow.org/ipac2021/papers/mopab419.pdf ER -