THE RAPID CYCLING MEDICAL SYNCHROTRON RCMS.
Thirteen hadron beam therapy facilities began operation between 1990 and 2001 - 5 in Europe, 4 in North America, 3 in Japan, and 1 in South Africa [l]. Ten of them irradiate tumors with protons, 2 with Carbon- 12 ions, and 1 with both protons and Carbon-12. The facility with the highest patient throughput - a total of 6 174 patients in 11 years and as many as 150 patient treatments per day -is the Loma Linda University Medical Center, which uses a weak focusing slow cycling synchrotron to accelerate beam for delivery to passive scattering nozzles at the end of rotatable gantries [2, 3,4]. The Rapid Cycling Medical Synchrotron (RCMS) is a second generation synchrotron that, by contrast with the Loma Linda synchrotron, is strong focusing and rapid cycling, with a repetition rate of 30 Hz. Primary parameters for the RCMS are listed in Table 1.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Doe - Office Of Energy Research
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC02-98CH10886
- OSTI ID:
- 914493
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-67042; R&D Project: AD002; KB0102030; TRN: US200809%%276
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: EUROPEAN PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CONFERENCE 2002; PARIS, FRANCE; 20020602 through 20020607
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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