LINAC2016 - List of Authors (Solodko, A.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPLR048	Fabrication and Testing of a Novel S-Band Backward Travelling Wave Accelerating Structure for Proton Therapy Linacs	237
SPWR023	use link to see paper's listing under its alternate paper code
	S. Benedetti, T. Argyropoulos, C. Blanch Gutiérrez, N. Catalán Lasheras, A. Degiovanni, D. Esperante Pereira, M. Garlaschè, J. Giner Navarro, A. Grudiev, G. McMonagle, A. Solodko, M.A. Timmins, R. Wegner, B.J. Woolley, W. Wuensch CERN, Geneva, Switzerland D. Esperante Pereira IFIC, Valencia, Spain
	Compact and more affordable, facilities for proton therapy are now entering the market of commercial medical accelerators. At CERN, a joint collaboration between CLIC and TERA Foundation led to the design, fabrication and testing of a high gradient accelerating structure prototype, capable of halving the length of state-of-art light ion therapy linacs. This paper focuses on the mechanical design, fabrication and testing of a first prototype. CLIC standardized bead-pull measurement setup was used, leading to a quick and successful tuning of the prototype. The high power tests will soon start in order to prove that the structure can withstand a very high accelerating gradient while suffering no more than 10^-6 breakdown per pulse per meter (bpp/m), resulting in less than one breakdown per treatment session.
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MOPLR066	ProBE: Proton Boosting Extension for Imaging and Therapy	283
	S. Pitman, R. Apsimon, G. Burt Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom A.F. Green, H.L. Owen UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom A. Grudiev, A. Solodko, W. Wuensch CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Funding: This work was funded by STFC and IPS Proton beam therapy has been shown to be a promising alternative to traditional radiotherapy, especially for paedi- atric malignancies and radio-resistant tumours. Allowing a highly precise tumour irradiation, it is currently limited by range verification. Several imaging modalities can be utilised for treatment planning, but typically X-ray CT is used. CT scans require conversion from Hounsfield units to estimate the proton stopping power (PSP) of the tissue be- ing treated, and this produces inaccuracy. Proton CT (pCT) measures PSP and is thought to allow an improvement of the treatment accuracy. The Christie Hospital will use a 250 MeV cyclotron for proton therapy, in this paper a pulsed linac upgrade is proposed, to provide 350 MeV protons for pCT within the facility. Space contraints require a compact, high gradient (HG) solution that is reliable and affordable.
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TUPLR047	Commissioning of XBox-3: A Very High Capacity X-band Test Stand	568
	N. Catalán Lasheras, C.F. Eymin, J. Giner Navarro, G. McMonagle, S.F. Rey, A. Solodko, I. Syratchev, B.J. Woolley, W. Wuensch CERN, Geneva, Switzerland T. Argyropoulos, D. Esperante Pereira IFIC, Valencia, Spain M. Volpi The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
	The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) beam-based acceleration baseline uses high-gradient travelling wave accelerating structures at a frequency of 12 GHz. In order to prove the performance of these structures at high peak power and short pulse width RF, two klystron-based test facilities have been put in operation in the last years. The third X-band testing facility at CERN (Xbox3) has recently been commissioned and has tripled the number of testing slots available. Xbox3 uses a novel way of combining relatively low peak power (6 MW) but high average power klystron units whose power is steered to feed four testing slots with RF to the required power with a repetition rate of up to 400 Hz. Besides the repetition rate, peak power, pulse length and pulse shape can be customized to fit the test requirements. This novel way of combining pulsed RF high power can eventually be used for many other applications where multiple test slots are required.
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Paper

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MOPLR048

Fabrication and Testing of a Novel S-Band Backward Travelling Wave Accelerating Structure for Proton Therapy Linacs

237

SPWR023

use link to see paper's listing under its alternate paper code

S. Benedetti, T. Argyropoulos, C. Blanch Gutiérrez, N. Catalán Lasheras, A. Degiovanni, D. Esperante Pereira, M. Garlaschè, J. Giner Navarro, A. Grudiev, G. McMonagle, A. Solodko, M.A. Timmins, R. Wegner, B.J. Woolley, W. Wuensch
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
D. Esperante Pereira
IFIC, Valencia, Spain

Compact and more affordable, facilities for proton therapy are now entering the market of commercial medical accelerators. At CERN, a joint collaboration between CLIC and TERA Foundation led to the design, fabrication and testing of a high gradient accelerating structure prototype, capable of halving the length of state-of-art light ion therapy linacs. This paper focuses on the mechanical design, fabrication and testing of a first prototype. CLIC standardized bead-pull measurement setup was used, leading to a quick and successful tuning of the prototype. The high power tests will soon start in order to prove that the structure can withstand a very high accelerating gradient while suffering no more than 10^-6 breakdown per pulse per meter (bpp/m), resulting in less than one breakdown per treatment session.

Poster MOPLR048 [2.804 MB]

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MOPLR066

ProBE: Proton Boosting Extension for Imaging and Therapy

283

S. Pitman, R. Apsimon, G. Burt
Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
A.F. Green, H.L. Owen
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
A. Grudiev, A. Solodko, W. Wuensch
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Funding: This work was funded by STFC and IPS
Proton beam therapy has been shown to be a promising alternative to traditional radiotherapy, especially for paedi- atric malignancies and radio-resistant tumours. Allowing a highly precise tumour irradiation, it is currently limited by range verification. Several imaging modalities can be utilised for treatment planning, but typically X-ray CT is used. CT scans require conversion from Hounsfield units to estimate the proton stopping power (PSP) of the tissue be- ing treated, and this produces inaccuracy. Proton CT (pCT) measures PSP and is thought to allow an improvement of the treatment accuracy. The Christie Hospital will use a 250 MeV cyclotron for proton therapy, in this paper a pulsed linac upgrade is proposed, to provide 350 MeV protons for pCT within the facility. Space contraints require a compact, high gradient (HG) solution that is reliable and affordable.

Poster MOPLR066 [0.610 MB]

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TUPLR047

Commissioning of XBox-3: A Very High Capacity X-band Test Stand

568

N. Catalán Lasheras, C.F. Eymin, J. Giner Navarro, G. McMonagle, S.F. Rey, A. Solodko, I. Syratchev, B.J. Woolley, W. Wuensch
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
T. Argyropoulos, D. Esperante Pereira
IFIC, Valencia, Spain
M. Volpi
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) beam-based acceleration baseline uses high-gradient travelling wave accelerating structures at a frequency of 12 GHz. In order to prove the performance of these structures at high peak power and short pulse width RF, two klystron-based test facilities have been put in operation in the last years. The third X-band testing facility at CERN (Xbox3) has recently been commissioned and has tripled the number of testing slots available. Xbox3 uses a novel way of combining relatively low peak power (6 MW) but high average power klystron units whose power is steered to feed four testing slots with RF to the required power with a repetition rate of up to 400 Hz. Besides the repetition rate, peak power, pulse length and pulse shape can be customized to fit the test requirements. This novel way of combining pulsed RF high power can eventually be used for many other applications where multiple test slots are required.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2016-TUPLR047

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