| Title |
Preliminary Studies of a Compact VHEE Linear Accelerator System for FLASH Radiotherapy |
| Authors |
- L. Giuliano, F. Bosco, M. Carillo, D. De Arcangelis, L. Faillace, L. Ficcadenti, M. Migliorati, A. Mostacci, L. Palumbo
Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- D. Alesini, M. Behtouei, B. Spataro
INFN/LNF, Frascati, Italy
- G. Cuttone, G. Torrisi
INFN/LNS, Catania, Italy
- V. Favaudon, S. Heinrich, A. Patriarca
Institut Curie - Centre de Protonthérapie d’Orsay, Orsay, France
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| Abstract |
The Flash Radio Therapy is a revolutionary new technique in the cancer cure: it spares healthy tissue from the damage of the ionizing radiation maintaining the tumor control as efficient as in conventional radiotherapy. To allow the implementation of the FLASH Therapy concept into actual clinical use, it is necessary to have a linear accelerator able to deliver the very high dose and very high dose rate (>10⁶ Gy/s) in a very short irradiation time (beam on time < 100ms). Low energy S-band Linacs (up to 7 MeV) are being used in Radiobiology and pre-clinic applications but in order to treat deep tumors, the energy of the electrons should achieve the range of 60-100 MeV. In this paper, we address the main issues in the design of a compact C band (5.712 GHz) electron linac-VHEE for FLASH Radio Therapy. We present preliminary studies on C-band structures at La Sapienza and at INFN-LNS, aiming to reach a high accelerating gradient and high current necessary to deliver a dose >1 Gy/pulse, with very short electron pulse.
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| Funding |
The work is supported by La Sapienza University, research grant "grandi progetti di ricerca 2020". |
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| Conference |
IPAC2021 |
| Series |
International Particle Accelerator Conference (12th) |
| Location |
Campinas, SP, Brazil |
| Date |
24-28 May 2021 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Liu Lin (LNLS, Campinas, Brazil); John M. Byrd (ANL, Lemont, IL, USA); Regis Neuenschwander (LNLS, Campinas, Brazil); Renan Picoreti (LNLS, Campinas, Brazil); Volker R. W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-214-1 |
| Online ISSN |
2673-5490 |
| Received |
19 May 2021 |
| Accepted |
09 June 2021 |
| Issue Date |
21 August 2021 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-MOPAB410 |
| Pages |
1229-1232 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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