Particle Therapy 2017

Extraction from cyclotron

r 1 ∝ δ

r

Efficiency =80%

Cathode at -50 kV

septum

δ r

Low radioactivity

← r

Last turns

δ r

Extracted beam

(ACCEL / Varian)

Marco Schippers, Beam production techniques for hadron therapy

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