Performance of a compact injector for heavy-ion medical accelerators

被引:25
作者
Iwata, Y.
Yamada, S.
Murakami, T.
Fujimoto, T.
Fujisawa, T.
Ogawa, H.
Miyahara, N.
Yamamoto, K.
Hojo, S.
Sakamoto, Y.
Muramatsu, M.
Takeuchi, T.
Mitsumoto, T.
Tsutsui, H.
Watanabe, T.
Ueda, T.
机构
[1] NIRS, Dept Accelerator & Med Phys, Chiba 2638555, Japan
[2] AEC, Chiba 2630043, Japan
[3] SHI, Tokyo 1418686, Japan
关键词
heavy-ion linac; RFQ; interdigital H-mode (IH) structure; IH-DTL; alternating-phase-focusing (APF); medical accelerators; heavy-ion therapy;
D O I
10.1016/j.nima.2007.01.012
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
A compact injector, designed for a heavy-ion medical accelerator complex, was constructed. It consists of an Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance Ion-Source (ECRIS) and two linacs, which are a Radio-Frequency-Quadrupole linac and an Interdigital H-mode Drift-Tube-Linac (IH-DTL) having the same operating frequency of 200 MHz. For beam focusing of the IH-DTL, the method of Alternating-Phase-Focusing (APF) was employed. The compact injector can accelerate heavy ions having a charge-to-mass ratio of (q)/(m) = (1)/(3) up to 4.0 MeV/u. Use of the APF IH-DTL and operating frequency of 200 MHz allowed us to design compact linacs; the total length of the two linacs is less than 6 m. Beam-acceleration tests of the compact injector system were performed. The measured intensity of accelerated C-12(4+) beams with the compact injector was 380 e mu A. Beam transmission of the APF IH-DTL was estimated to be as high as 96%, which is comparable to the value calculated by a simulation code. Transverse phase-space and energy distributions of accelerated beams were measured and compared with those calculated by the simulation code, and we found that they were agreed well with each other. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:1007 / 1021
页数:15
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