Commissioning a clinical proton pencil beam scanning beamline for pre-clinical ultra-high dose rate irradiations on a cyclotron-based system
Jatinder Saini, Danielle P. Johnson Erickson, François Vander Stappen, Matt Ruth, Sunan Cui, Vanessa Gorman, Séverine Rossomme, Ning Cao, Eric C. Ford, Juergen Meyer, Charles Bloch, Tony Wong, Clemens Grassberger, Ramesh Rengan, Jing Zeng, Marco Schwarz · 2024
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Jatinder Saini and fifteen co-authors ready a proton beam for ultra-fast dose tests in a 2024 paper. Flash care, which dumps dose at huge speed, may spare sound tissue, but rigs must be tuned and proved before trials on beasts or men. Their rig is a clinic cyclotron with a pencil-scan head.
The team opened the beam's gates and set its brake to pass-through for top speed. A shifter block fattened the spot into a round form. Flow yield and dose-watch drift were gauged in full. The beamline now stands proved for flash tests.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jatinder Saini, Danielle P. Johnson Erickson, François Vander Stappen, Matt Ruth, Sunan Cui, Vanessa Gorman, Séverine Rossomme, Ning Cao, Eric C. Ford, Juergen Meyer, Charles Bloch, Tony Wong, Clemens Grassberger, Ramesh Rengan, Jing Zeng, Marco Schwarz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |