摘要:
The invention relates to a particle accelerator for radiotherapy by means of ion beams (150). The particle accelerator comprises a sixfold synchrotron ring (100) having six rectilinear beam sections (1 to 6) and six curved beam sections (7 to 12). Injection means (43) for introducing a linearly accelerated ion beam into the synchrotron ring (100) are arranged on a first rectilinear beam section (1) of the six rectilinear beam sections (1-6). Along the course of a second rectilinear beam section (5) there is at least one acceleration means (44) for the ion beam. Extraction means (45) for extracting the internal beam highly accelerated after several circulations are provided on a third rectilinear beam section (4). Each curved beam section (7 to 12) comprises a pair of dipole magnets (13/14, 15/16, 17/18, 19/20, 21/22, 23/24). A horizontally defocusing quadrupole magnet (31 to 36) is arranged between each pair of dipole magnets (13/14, 15/16, 17/18, 19/20, 21/22, 23/24), and a horizontally focusing quadrupole magnet (25 to 30) is arranged upstream of each pair of dipole magnets (13/14, 15/16, 17/18, 19/20, 21/22, 23/24).
摘要:
The invention relates to an apparatus and method for compensation of three-dimensional movements of a target volume (1) during ion beam irradiation. For the purpose, the apparatus comprises a position location and tracking system (4) for detecting the movements and a depth modulator (6) for modifying the depth of penetration of the ion beam. For the purpose of compensation, the movements are divided vectorially into a transverse component and a longitudinal component. The transverse component is compensated from irradiation point to irradiation point using the raster scanning apparatus (3) and the longitudinal component is compensated from irradiation point to irradiation point using the depth modulator (6) by means of the fact that, in addition to the change in the location of the target volume, the change in the structure of healthy tissue covering the target volume is, in the preliminaries to irradiation, detected and modelled and stored in the form of a look-up table in a memory of a movement measurement, control and read-out module SAMB and compared with the actual values during irradiation.
摘要:
Irradiation device (1) for proton and/or ion beam therapy, said device comprising a radiation source (3), a beam guiding device (5), and at least one therapy room (7) comprising at least one treatment site (9) and at least one access (17), into which a treatment beam (13) is directed, wherein the therapy room (7) is arranged in a first plane (E1), and the treatment beam (13) is directed into the therapy room (7) from a second plane (E2) located above or below the first plane (E1), derived therein, oriented towards the treatment site (9) so that the treatment beam (13) directed towards the treatment site (9) is directed away from the access (17); wherein in the therapy room, a shielding is provided, which is open towards the treatment site (9) and associated with the entrance region (E) of the treatment beam (13) into the therapy room (7) so that the access (17) is arranged on the side of the side of the shielding (33) opposing the treatment site (9), and wherein at least one labyrinth (L) leading from the access (17) to the treatment site (9) is provided laterally offset in relation to the treatment beam (13) proceeding in the therapy room (7) and to the shielding (33).
摘要:
The invention relates to a method and to a device for controlling a beam extraction irradiation device for heavy ions operating according to the raster scan technique, wherein the beam energy, beam focusing and beam intensity are adjusted for every accelerator cycle. By adjusting the beam extraction duration for every accelerator cycle, considerable savings of time are achieved.
摘要:
The invention relates to a sheet material having metal points (8) and surfaces (2 and 3) located opposite one another, wherein the sheet material (1) has through-holes (4) from one surface (2) to the surface (3) located opposite. Those through-holes (4) are filled with needle-point-shaped conical pins (5) or through-contacts (6) of electrically conducting material, whereas the surrounding sheet material in a preferred embodiment of the invention consists of an insulating plastics material (7). In a further embodiment of the invention, instead of the insulating plastics material (7) there are provided needle-shaped pins that are surrounded by air or some other gaseous medium. The invention further relates to a method for the production of such a sheet material (1) and to forms of use of the sheet material (1).
摘要:
The present invention relates to an apparatus for pre-acceleration of ions and optimized matching of beam parameters used in a heavy ion application comprising a radio frequency quadruple accelerator (RFQ) having two mini-vane pairs supported by a plurality of alternating stems accelerating the ions from about 8 keV/u to about 400 keV/u and an intertank matching section for matching the parameters of the ion beam coming from the radio frequency quadruple accelerator (RFQ) to the parameters required by a subsequent drift tube linear accelerator (DTL).
摘要:
The invention relates to a coating comprising a getter metal alloy and to an arrangement and method for the production thereof. The coating therein consists of a non-vaporizing getter metal alloy (2) for an inner wall (3) of a high-vacuum vessel (4). The arrangement basically consists of a metal plasma generator (7), which in turn comprises an insulator member (8), which carries an ignition electrode (9) and a cathode wire (10) comprising a getter metal alloy (2). Those three components are surrounded by a cage-like anode member (13), which together with the insulation member (8) projects into the high vacuum vessel (5) to be coated and is supplied with cathode potential (12), high-voltage ignition pulse (19) and anode potential (14) by a voltage supply device (16), the anode member (13) together with the high-vacuum vessel (4) being held at ground potential.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an irradiation verification apparatus (1), the irradiation verification apparatus (1) containing living cell material which is fixed in location on cell supports (3). The cell supports (3) are arranged between cell support holders (5,6). For irradiation verification, the z co-ordinate of the irradiation verification apparatus (1) is adjusted in the direction of the beam axis Z so that, after the irradiation, regions having killed cell material can be demarcated in spatial co-ordinates, with reference to an irradiation scheme, from regions having cell material of the irradiation verification apparatus (1) that is still active. A container (2) having an insert (4) for the cell supports (3) and also the cell support holders (5,6) comprise a beam-transparent material. The cell support holders (5,6) have a base plate (5) and a top plate (6), between which the cell supports (3) are arranged orthogonally to the holding plates (5,6). The holding plates (5,6) have blind holes (8,9) aligned with one another, in which the ends (10,11) of the cell supports are arranged, the cell supports (3) being solid rods (12) on the outer surfaces (13) of which the cell material is fixed.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an apparatus for pre-acceleration of ions and optimized matching of beam parameters used in a heavy ion application comprising a radio frequency quadruple accelerator (RFQ) having two mini-vane pairs supported by a plurality of alternating stems accelerating the ions from about 8 keV/u to about 400 keV/u and an intertank matching section for matching the parameters of the ion beam coming from the radio frequency quadruple accelerator (RFQ) to the parameters required by a subsequent drift tube linear accelerator (DTL).
摘要:
The invention relates to a method of producing nanostructures in membranes, in which method a membrane consisting of a polymer material is irradiated with charged particles, especially ions, to produce particle tracks. The particle tracks in the membrane are etched using an etching liquid and the etching operation is stopped using a stop liquid, in such a manner that asymmetrical structures are formed. Polyimide is used as the membrane material.