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@inproceedings{dagostino:ipac2021-tupab188,
author = {G. D’Agostino and Q. Flandroy and E. Forton and W.J.G.M. Kleeven and J. Mandrillon and V. Nuttens and E. van der Kraaij},
% author = {G. D’Agostino and Q. Flandroy and E. Forton and W.J.G.M. Kleeven and J. Mandrillon and V. Nuttens and others},
% author = {G. D’Agostino and others},
title = {{InnovaTron: An Innovative High-Intensity Industrial Cyclotron for Production of Tc-99m and Other Frontier Medical Radioisotopes*}},
booktitle = {Proc. IPAC'21},
pages = {1841--1844},
eid = {TUPAB188},
language = {english},
keywords = {cyclotron, extraction, ion-source, proton, acceleration},
venue = {Campinas, SP, Brazil},
series = {International Particle Accelerator Conference},
number = {12},
publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland},
month = {08},
year = {2021},
issn = {2673-5490},
isbn = {978-3-95450-214-1},
doi = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB188},
url = {https://jacow.org/ipac2021/papers/tupab188.pdf},
note = {https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB188},
abstract = {{Tc-99m is the most used radioisotope in nuclear medicine. It is almost exclusively produced with a few ageing research reactors worldwide. In response to growing concerns about Tc-99m availability and its increasing demand, alternative production routes are being explored. The EU-funded InnovaTron project aims at designing an innovative compact high-intensity self-extracting cyclotron able to deliver proton beams with currents up to 5 mA or more for the direct production of Tc-99m. It could be also used for production of high quantities of other frontier medical radioisotopes. The proton beams exit without using an electrostatic deflector to overcome its current limitations. A prototype cyclotron was built by IBA in 2001. Currents up to 2 mA were extracted from it. However, at higher intensities, the extraction efficiency was not higher than 70-75% and the extracted emittance was rather large. The InnovaTron project will implement new technological solutions in the self-extracting cyclotron to be used for large-scale industrial applications. An overview on the InnovaTron project is here presented together with the first simulation results.}},
}