| Article | |
| Report number | arXiv:1804.08540 |
| Title | Future Trends in Linacs |
| Author(s) | Degiovanni, Alberto (CERN) |
| Publication | 2017 |
| Imprint | 2018-04-23 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Note | 14 pages, Presented at the CAS- CERN Accelerator School on Accelerators for Medical Application, V\"osendorf, Austria, 26 May - 5 June, 2015 |
| In: | CAS - CERN Accelerator School: Accelerators for Medical Applications, pp.151-164 |
| DOI | 10.23730/CYRSP-2017-001.151 (publication) |
| Subject category | physics.med-ph ; Health Physics and Radiation Effects |
| Abstract | High-frequency hadron-therapy linacs have been studied for the last 20 years and are now being built for dedicated proton-therapy centres. The main reason for using high-frequency linacs, in spite of the small apertures and low-duty cycle, is the fact that, for such applications, beam currents of the order of a few nA and energies of about 200 MeV are sufficient. One of the main advantages of linacs, pulsing at 200-400Hz, is that the output energy can be continuously varied, pulse-by-pulse, and a moving tumour target can be covered about ten times in 2-3 minutes by deposing the dose in many thousands of 'spots'. Starting from the first proposal and the on-going projects related to linacs for medical applications, a discussion of the trend of this field is presented focussing, in particular, on the main challenges for the future, such as the reduction of the footprint of compact 'single-room' proton machines and the power efficiency of dual |
| Copyright/License | publication: © 2017-2024 CERN (License: CC-BY-4.0) preprint: (License: CC-BY-4.0) |
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