Speaker
Description
Proton therapy has a significant advantage over conventional radiation therapy. Yet most hospitals do not offer it because of the significant cost associated with it. In this work, we developed the most compact, low-cost, expandable, and high-performance beamline for multi-room particle therapy. The accelerator is located at a lower level (underground) and the beamline guides the particles to treatment rooms located on the upper level of the floor. The treatment delivery rooms are then designed in a circular arrangement such that the rotating beamline can deliver a beam to each treatment room where the patient is treated in an upright position and rotated in front of a static treatment beam. The compact beamline can rotate 360o about the vertical axis. For this beamline, the beam characteristics for treatment are calculated with the BDSIM Monte Carlo simulations code. With this invention, we can fit a single-room proton facility within an existing LINAC vault and 4 room facility could fit within a tennis court. We believe that the high throughput and minimum investment cost will allow treating the patients with protons the same as the conventional radiation therapy treatment cost.
Funding Agency
SNF BRIDGE
| Region represented | Europe |
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| Paper preparation format | Word |
