Design of a Dedicated Heavy Ion Accelerator for Radiotherapy.

摘要

A new heavy-ion accelerator facility for radiotherapy is being designed at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Performance requirements have been established. Ions from helium to argon can be accelerated to a maximum energy of 800 MeV/nucleon with intensities in the range 10 exp 8 to 10 exp 9 particles per second. The accelerator subsystems consist of a linac injector, a synchrotron, and a beam-delivery system. Specifications have been developed for many of the technical components, and some details of the technical design are presented. (ERA citation 08:034317)