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Physical design of scanning gantry for proton therapy facility
- Source :
- Chinese Physics C. 34:394-397
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- IOP Publishing, 2010.
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Abstract
- A proton therapy facility based on a linac injector and a slow cycling synchrotron is proposed. To achieve effective treatment of cancer, a scanning gantry is required. The flexible transmission of beam and high beam position accuracy are the most basic requirements for a gantry. The designed gantry optics and scanning system are presented. Great efforts are put into studying the sensitivity of the beam position in the isocenter to the element misalignments. It shows that quadrupole shift makes the largest contribution and special attention should be paid to it.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Isocenter
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Injector
Synchrotron
Linear particle accelerator
law.invention
Optics
law
medicine
Medical physics
Sensitivity (control systems)
Physical design
business
Instrumentation
Proton therapy
Beam (structure)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16741137
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Chinese Physics C
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........df6e2898467399885aa7d092d8feb099