Conveners
Medical Applications of Accelerators - 3
- Greg Severin (Michigan State University)
Conventional therapy to treat cancer is through surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy and immunotherapy with 2/3 of cancer patients receiving radiation therapy during the course of their treatment. Conventional radiation therapy with X-ray, protons and ions increases the therapeutic index by creating a physical dose differential between tumors and normal tissues through precision dose...
The Bern medical cyclotron laboratory is based on a 18 MeV proton cyclotron equipped with a specifically conceived 6 m long research beam line, terminated in a separate bunker. This particular configuration is designed for industrial Positron Emission Tomography (PET) radioisotope production as well as for multi-disciplinary scientific activities. A research program is ongoing encompassing...
Progress in cancer therapy with ions heavier than protons, i.e., notably helium and carbon, but also as heavy as oxygen and neon, requires research and development capability preferably in a broad user environment. Heavy ion therapy offers significant advantages in the treatment of many types of cancer compared to protons and, even more so, to conventional radiotherapy with high energy x-rays...
We present a design of the complete proton FLASH radiation therapy facility using the Brag peak. It includes commercially available injector cyclotron (10-30 MeV) with the fixed field alternating (FFA) gradient beam lines, permanent magnet fast-cycling synchrotron accelerator, and a delivery system- an FFA gantry. This facility removes limitations of the present proton cancer therapy...
The McLaren Proton Therapy Center functions as a clinically active, multi-room cancer treatment center. Beam size, position, and current measurements along the transfer lines are being utilized together with simulations to validate computer models for the Center’s transfer lines and associated beam parameters. BPM data collected along the beam lines provide detailed beam measurements. A...
