Accelerators for Charged Particle Therapy: Performance Criteria from the User Point of View
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The introduction of charged particle therapy in the hospitals could provide substantial improvements to external radiation therapy for cancer treatment. Many different types of accelerators have been proposed for installation in the hospitals, all with their own merits and disadvantages. In this report we discuss the requirements posed by charged particle therapy on the quality of the beam delivered by the accelerator (variable or fixed energy, beam duty factor, beam intensity, etc.). Special emphasis is given to items like dynamic beam scanning, gantry design and proton radiography and tomography, which are not well established yet in this field but which could eventually have a strong impact on the choice of the accelerator for charged particle therapy in the future.
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