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URLhttps://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2024-WEAN1
TitleFirst dual isotope beam production for simultaneous heavy ion radiotherapy and radiography
Authors
  • M. Galonska, W. Barth, C. Graeff, R. Hollinger, F. Maimone, D. Ondreka, J. Stadlmann, P. Spiller, D. Varentsov, L. Volz, T. Wagner
    GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH
  • S. Reimann
    Goethe Universität Frankfurt
  • M. Schanz
    Los Alamos National Laboratory
AbstractIn the context of research on simultaneous heavy ion radiotherapy and radiography, a mixed carbon/helium ion beam has been successfully established and investigated at GSI for the first time to serve fundamental experiments on this new mode of image guidance. A beam with an adjustable ratio of 12C3+/4He+ was provided by the 14.5 GHz Caprice ECR ion source for subsequent acceleration in the linear accelerator UNILAC and the synchrotron SIS18. Despite the mass difference between the 4He+ and 12C3+ ions, both could be slowly extracted simultaneously at 225 MeV/u using the transverse knock-out extraction scheme. The ion beam has been finally characterized in the biophysics cave in terms of beam composition (particularly inter- and intra-spill He fraction), depth-dose-profiles, beam size, position and other parameters, all related to combined ion beam treatment and online monitoring. Utilizing high-speed particle radiography techniques, a fast extracted mixed ion beam has also been characterized in the plasma physics cave under conditions favorable to FLASH therapy.
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Conference15th International Particle Accelerator Conference
Series
LocationNashville, TN
Date19-24 May 2024
PublisherJACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial BoardFulvia Pilat - Oak Ridge National Laboratory Wolfram Fischer - Brookhaven National Laboratory Robert Saethre - Oak Ridge National Laboratory Petr Anisimov - Los Alamos National Laboratory Ivan Andrian - Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.
Online ISBN978-3-95450-247-9
Online ISSN2673-5490
Received15 May 2024
Revised19 May 2024
Accepted19 May 2024
Issued01 July 2024
DOI10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2024-WEAN1
Pages1893-1896