ESTRO PT 2018

Pencil beam scanning

Requirements for accelerator: - stable beam position

Spot scanning: step & shoot

Continuous scanning

allows fast treatments e.g. for target repainting

kHz-Intensity modulation

Requirements for accelerator: - stable beam position - continuous and stable beam - fast adjustable beam intensity

0 time (ms) 10 intensity

Marco Schippers, Beam production techniques for hadron therapy

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