Normal-conducting scaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator for proton therapy

J Garland; R.B. Appleby; Hywel Owen; Samuel Tygier

doi:10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.18.094701

Normal-conducting scaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator for proton therapy

J Garland, R.B. Appleby, Hywel Owen, Samuel Tygier

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In this paper we present a new lattice design for a 30-350 MeV scaling fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator for proton therapy and tomography, NORMA (NOrmal-conducting Racetrack Medical Accelerator). The energy range allows the realization of proton computed tomography and utilizes normal conducting magnets in both a conventional circular ring option and a novel racetrack configuration, both designed using advanced optimization algorithms we have developed in PyZgoubi. Both configurations consist of ten focusing-defocusing-focusing triplet cells and operate in the second stability region of Hills equation. The ring configuration has a circumference of 60 m, a peak magnetic field seen by the beam of

Original language	English
Article number	094701
Journal	Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams
Volume	18
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.18.094701
Publication status	Published - 29 Sep 2015

Keywords

accelerator, radiotherapy, proton

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Establishing the UK’s first high-energy proton therapy service at the Christie Hospital Manchester and University College London Hospital.
Hywel Owen (Participant), Robert Appleby (Participant), Ranald Mackay (Participant), Karen Kirkby (Participant) & Roger Barlow (Participant)
Impact: Health and wellbeing, Economic, Technological

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Normal-conducting scaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator for proton therapy

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Establishing the UK’s first high-energy proton therapy service at the Christie Hospital Manchester and University College London Hospital.

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