PAMELA - a model for an FFAG based hadron therapy machine

Author

Peach, K. ; Cobb, J. ; Yokoi, T. ; Gardner, Ian ; Edgecock, Rob ; Poole, Mike ; Pozimski, J. ; Cywinski, Bob ; Jones, Bleddyn ; McKenna, Gilles ; Vojnovic, Boris ; Folkard, Melvyn ; Kirkby, Karen ; Webb, Roger ; Barlow, Roger ; Elliott, Alex

Author_Institution

JAI, Oxford

fYear

2007

fDate

25-29 June 2007

Firstpage

2880

Lastpage

2882

Abstract

Approximately one third of the world´s 15000 accelerators are used for tumour therapy and other medical applications [1]. The characteristics of FFAGs make them ideally suited to such applications, as the much smaller magnet size and greater compactness offers considerable cost and operational benefits. In the first stage the work on PAMELA will focus on the optimization of the FFAG design to deliver the specific machine parameters demanded by therapy applications. In this phase of the PAMELA project the effort will concentrate on the design of a semi-scaling type FFAGs to deliver a 450 MeV/u carbon ion beam, including detailed lattice and tracking studies. The second stage will use the existing expertise in the BASROC consortium [2] to undertake a design of the magnets and RF system for PAMELA. An outline of the overall concept of PAMELA will be discussed and the actual status of the work will be presented.

Keywords

accelerator RF systems; accelerator magnets; biomedical equipment; radiation therapy; BASROC consortium; FFAG based hadron therapy machine; PAMELA; RF system; accelerator magnets; semiscaling type FFAG; tumour therapy; Acceleration; Biomedical equipment; Cancer; Costs; Ion beams; Lattices; Magnetic resonance; Medical services; Medical treatment; Protons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2007. PAC. IEEE

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0916-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2007.4440607

Filename

4440607