Electrostatic design and beam transport for a folded tandem electrostatic quadrupole accelerator facility for accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1649-1653

  Thatar Vento, V ^a,b   Bergueiro, J ^a,b   Cartelli, D ^a,b   Valda, A A ^a,c   Kreiner, A J ^a,b,c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Accelerator tubes; Beam transport; Electrostatic accelerators; Electrostatic quadrupoles

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR TUBE; ACCELERATOR-BASED BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPIES; BEAM TRANSPORT; ELECTROSTATIC QUADRUPOLE; HIGH INTENSITY BEAM; QUADRUPOLES;

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; ELECTROSTATIC ACCELERATORS; ELECTROSTATICS;

ACCELERATION;

BORON;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PROTON TRANSPORT; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TANDEM ELECTROSTATIC QUADRUPOLE;

EID: 80055071504     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: 18729800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2011.01.033     Document Type: Article

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