Current and future accelerator technologies for charged particle therapy

Hywel Owen; Antony Lomax; Simon Jolly

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2015.08.038

Current and future accelerator technologies for charged particle therapy

Hywel Owen^*, Antony Lomax, Simon Jolly

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Abstract

The past few years have seen significant developments both of the technologies available for proton and other charged particle therapies, and of the number and spread of therapy centres. In this review we give an overview of these technology developments, and outline the principal challenges and opportunities we see as important in the next decade. Notable amongst these is the ever-increasing use of superconductivity both in particle sources and for treatment delivery, which is likely to greatly increase the accessibility of charged particle therapy treatments to hospital centres worldwide.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	96-104
Number of pages	9
Journal	Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
Volume	809
Early online date	29 Aug 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.08.038
Publication status	Published - 11 Feb 2016

Keywords

Accelerator
Cyclotron
Linac
Proton
Radiotherapy
Synchrotron

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