Particle Therapy 2017

Marco Schippers, Beam production techniques for hadron therapy

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Cyclotron (1930)

Magnet

RF electrodes

“Dee”

RF-Voltage “Vdee”

RF frequency

electrode

slit crossing:

Energy gain

ΔE=V

dee

Proton source

Septum

cathode