Author: Doran, D.S.
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MOPOJO15 Low Energy Linac for Electronic Brachytherapy 59
 
  • C.-J. Jing, P.V. Avrakhov, J.R. Callahan, B.T. Freemire, E. Gomez, R.A. Kostin, A. Liu, S. Miller, W. Si, Y. Zhao
    Euclid TechLabs, Solon, Ohio, USA
  • D.S. Doran, W. Liu, J.G. Power
    ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
  • C.G. Liu, M. Pankuch
    Northwestern University, Northwestern Medicine Proton Center, Warrenville, Illinois, USA
  • D. Mihalcea, P. Piot
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  • W.D. Rush
    KU, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
  • J.S. Welsh
    Edward Hines Junior VA Hospital, Hines, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: The project is supported by NNSA under Contract 89233121CNA000209.
The use of elec­tronic brachyther­apy (EB) has grown rapidly over the past decade. It is gain­ing sig­nif­i­cant in­ter­est from the global med­ical com­mu­nity as an im­proved user-friendly tech­nol­ogy to re­duce the usage of Ir-192. How­ever, the pre­sent EB ma­chines all use elec­tron beams at en­er­gies of 100 kV or less to gen­er­ate the X-ray pho­tons, which lim­its their use to low dose-rate brachyther­apy. We focus on the de­vel­op­ment of a com­pact and light weight 1-MeV linac to gen­er­ate and de­liver >250 kV X-ray pho­tons to the pa­tient. The de­vice is in­tended to retro­fit to ex­ist­ing brachyther­apy ap­pli­ca­tors. In this paper we will re­port progress on this pro­ject.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-MOPOJO15  
About • Received ※ 20 August 2022 — Revised ※ 26 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 31 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 09 September 2022
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