Performances of the scanning system for the CNAO center of oncological hadron therapy

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 613, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 317-322

  Giordanengo, S ^a   Donetti, M ^a,b   Marchetto, F ^a   Ansarinejad, A ^c   Attili, A ^a   Bourhaleb, F ^a,c   Burini, F ^d   Cirio, R ^a,c   Fabbricatore, P ^e   Voelker, F ^f   Garella, M A ^a   Incurvati, M ^d   Monaco, V ^a,c   Pardo, J ^a   Peroni, C ^a,c   Russo, G ^a,c   Sacchi, R ^a,c   Taddia, G ^d   Zampieri, A ^a  

^a SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Centro Nazionale Adroterapia Oncologica CNAO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d OCEM   (Italy)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

^f CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dose delivery; Hadron therapy; Magnet; Power supply; Scanning system

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SCANNING; DIPOLE MAGNETS; DOSE DELIVERY; DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; FAST SCANNING; FLUENCES; HADRON THERAPY; HALL PROBE; MAGNET POWER SUPPLY; NARROW PARTICLE BEAMS; POWER SUPPLY; SCANNING SYSTEMS; TUMOURS; VERTICAL BEAMS;

DRIVES; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; HADRONS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAGNETS; TUMORS;

SCANNING;

EID: 74349128353     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.11.068     Document Type: Article

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