Author: Sarti, A.
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THPOTK054 Proposal of a VHEE Linac for FLASH Radiotherapy 2903
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  • L. Giuliano, F. Bosco, M. Carillo, D. De Arcangelis, A. De Gregorio, L. Ficcadenti, D. Francescone, G. Franciosini, M. Migliorati, A. Mostacci, L. Palumbo, V. Patera, A. Sarti
    Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
  • D. Alesini, A. Gallo, A. Vannozzi
    INFN/LNF, Frascati, Italy
  • M. Behtouei, L. Faillace, B. Spataro
    LNF-INFN, Frascati, Italy
  • M.G. Bisogni, F. Di Martino, J.H. Pensavalle
    INFN-Pisa, Pisa, Italy
  • G.A.P. Cirrone, G. Cuttone, G. Torrisi
    INFN/LNS, Catania, Italy
  • V. Favaudon, A. Patriarca
    Institut Curie - Centre de Protonthérapie d’Orsay, Orsay, France
  • S. Heinrich
    Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, Orsay, France
 
  Translation of electron FLASH radiotherapy in clinical practice requires the use of high energy accelerators to treat deep tumours and Very High Electron Energy (VHEE) could represent a valid technique to achieve this goal. In this sce- nario, a VHEE FLASH linac is under study at the University La Sapienza of Rome (Italy) in collaboration with the Italian Institute for Nuclear Research (INFN) and the Curie Insti- tute (France). Here we present the preliminary results of a compact C-band system aiming to reach an high accelerating gradient and an high pulse current necessary to deliver high dose per pulse and ultra-high dose rate required for FLASH effect. We propose a system composed of a low energy high current injector linac followed by a modular section of high accelerating gradient structures. CST code is used to define the required LINAC’s RF parameters and beam dynamics simulations are performed using T-Step, ASTRA and GPT tracking codes.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOTK054  
About • Received ※ 17 May 2022 — Revised ※ 14 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 10 July 2022
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