| Title |
Low Energy Linac for Electronic Brachytherapy |
| Authors |
- C.-J. Jing, P.V. Avrakhov, J.R. Callahan, B.T. Freemire, E. Gomezpresenter, 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
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| Abstract |
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.
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| Funding |
The project is supported by NNSA under Contract 89233121CNA000209. |
| Paper |
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| Conference |
LINAC2022 |
| Series |
International Linear Accelerator Conference (31st) |
| Location |
Liverpool, UK |
| Date |
28 August-02 September 2022 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Peter McIntosh (STFC DL, Daresbury, UK); Graeme Burt (Lancaster Univ., Lancaster, UK); Robert Apsimon (Lancaster Univ., Lancaster, UK); Volker R.W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-215-8 |
| Online ISSN |
2226-0366 |
| Received |
20 August 2022 |
| Revised |
26 August 2022 |
| Accepted |
31 August 2022 |
| Issue Date |
09 September 2022 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-MOPOJO15 |
| Pages |
59-61 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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