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https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-MOPOGE09
Title Commissioning Status of the iBNCT Accelerator
Authors
  • M. Sato, Z. Fang, M.K. Fukuda, Y. Fukui, K. Futatsukawa, K. Ikegami, H. Kobayashi, C. Kubota, T. Kurihara, T. Miura, T. Miyajima, F. Naito, K. Nanmo, T. Obina, T. Shibata, T. Sugimura, A. Takagi
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • H. Kumada, Y. Matsumoto, Su. Tanaka
    Tsukuba University, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan
  • N. Nagura, T. Ohba
    Nippon Advanced Technology Co., Ltd., Tokai, Japan
  • H. Oguri
    JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan
  • T. Toyoshima
    ATOX, Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract An accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) has been studied intensively in recent years as one of the new cancer therapies after many clinical research with nuclear reactors. In the iBNCT project, the accelerator configuration consists of an RFQ and a DTL which have proven achievements in J-PARC. Meanwhile, a high duty factor is required to have a sufficient thermal neutron flux needed by BNCT treatments. After a failure of the klystron power supply occurred in Feb. 2019, beam operation was resumed in May 2020. To date, an average current of about 2 mA with the beam repetition rate of 75 Hz has been achieved with stable operation. Irradiation tests with cells and mice are ongoing together with characteristic measurements of the neutron beam. In parallel with that, we have been gradually improving the accelerator cooling-water system for further stability. In this contribution, the present status and prospects of the iBNCT accelerator are reported.
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Conference LINAC2022
Series International Linear Accelerator Conference (31st)
Location Liverpool, UK
Date 28 August-02 September 2022
Publisher JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial Board Peter McIntosh (STFC DL, Daresbury, UK); Graeme Burt (Lancaster Univ., Lancaster, UK); Robert Apsimon (Lancaster Univ., Lancaster, UK); Volker R.W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
Online ISBN 978-3-95450-215-8
Online ISSN 2226-0366
Received 12 August 2022
Revised 19 August 2022
Accepted 02 September 2022
Issue Date 30 September 2022
DOI doi:10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-MOPOGE09
Pages 164-166
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