Application of the medical linear accelerator ELEKTA AXESSE in the study of sorption properties of impurities and absorption coefficients of medium and heavy chemical elements

In this article, the authors propose a new technique for measuring linear attenuation coefficients on the medical linear accelerator Elekta Axesse. Linear attenuation coefficients were obtained for four samples at different concentrations of substances at a gamma-ray energy of 6 MeV. A unified ionization chamber was used as a detector to register the transmitted gamma-ray beam through the samples under study. Linear absorption coefficients were obtained for elements B, C, O, S, Fe, Ba taking into account their concentration, as well as taking into account the different mass inclusion of paraffin in the samples under study, which is acyclic hydrocarbons CnH2n+2. The measurement results showed that taking into account certain components in impurities leads to relatively small, but quite noticeable differences in the determination of the total absorption coefficients. This is especially important to take into account for determining the concentration of light elements in samples. To determine the content of medium and heavy chemical elements, taking into account the content of light elements can be neglected. The use of a 6 MeV gamma-ray beam made it possible to reduce the errors in determining the absorption coefficients, since their dependence on energy in the region of applicable gamma-ray energies is not so great in comparison with the low-energy region, in which the shell effects for heavy elements will introduce significant contribution.

Simulation studies of beam dynamics in 50 MeV linear accelerator with laser-plasma electron gun

Conventionally, electron guns with thermionic cathodes or field-emission cathodes are used for research or technological linear accelerators. RF-photoguns are used to provide the short electron bunches which could be used for FEL’s of compact research facilities to generate monochromatic photons. Low energy of emitted electrons is the key problem for photoguns due to high influence of Coulomb field and difficulties with the first accelerating cell simulation and construction. Contrary, plasma sources, based on the laser-plasma wakefield acceleration, have very high acceleration gradient but rather broad energy spectrum compared with conventional thermoguns or field-emission guns. The beam dynamics in the linear accelerator combines the laser-plasma electron source and conventional RF linear accelerator is discussed in this paper. Method to capture and re-accelerate the short picosecond bunch with extremely broad energy spread (up to 50 %) is presented. Numerical simulation shows that such bunches can be accelerated in RF linear accelerator to the energy of 50 MeV with output energy spread not higher than 1 % .

Beam dynamics design of HIAF RFQ

The high-intensity heavy ion accelerator facility is a next-generation advanced heavy-ion accelerator facility built by the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The RFQ is designed to provide a continuous wave beam and 2[Formula: see text]mA pulse beam with high-quality longitudinal beam distribution for the injection linear accelerator. Two different designs of aiming to suppress the longitudinal emittance were studied, and the optimized scheme which composed of a three-harmonic pre-buncher and an RFQ accelerator with small longitudinal acceptance was chosen. More emphasis is put on the section between pre-buncher and RFQ, where the space charge effect becomes severe with bunched beam. The optimal design and the analysis are presented in this paper.

Clinically Delivered Treatment for Glioma Patients on Hybrid Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)-Linear Accelerator (MR-Linac) versus Cone Beam CT (CBCT)-Guided Linac

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)-Linear Accelerator (MR-Linac) radiotherapy is an innovative technology that requires special consideration for secondary electron interactions within the magnetic field, which can alter dose deposition at air-tissue interfaces. Thirty-seven consecutive glioma patients had treatment planning completed and approved prior to radiotherapy initiation using commercial treatment planning systems (TPS): a Monte Carlo-based or convolution-based TPS for MR-Linac or Cone Beam CT (CBCT)-guided Linac, respectively. In vivo skin dose was measured using an Optically Stimulated Luminescent Dosimeter (OSLD) and correlated with TPS skin dose. We found that Monte Carlo-based MR-Linac plans and convolution-based CBCT-Linac plans had similar dosimetric parameters for target volumes and organs-at-risk. However, MR-Linac plans had 1.52 Gy higher mean dose to air cavities (p<0.0001) and 1.10 Gy higher mean dose to skin (p<0.0001). In vivo skin dose was 14.5% greater for MR-Linac (p=0.0027), and were more accurately predicted by Monte Carlo-based calculation (ρ=0.95, p<0.0001) vs. convolution-based (ρ=0.80, p=0.0096). This is the first prospective dosimetric comparison of glioma patients clinically treated on both MR-Linac and CBCT-guided Linac. Skin doses were significantly greater with MR-Linac and correlated with in vivo measurements. Future MR-Linac planning processes are being designed to account for skin dosimetry and treatment delivery.

Radioterapi Kanker Cervix Dengan Linear Accelerator (LINAC)

Kanker serviks merupakan salah satu kanker mematikan yang sering terjadi di Indonesia. Pada tahun 2019, Kementerian Kesehatan mencatat kanker serviks menempati peringkat kedua untuk jenis kanker yang paling banyak ditemui setelah kanker payudara. Setiap tahunnya, ada sekitar 40.000 kasus baru kanker serviks yang terdeteksi pada perempuan Indonesia. Upaya dalam menyembuhkannya melalui radioterapi dengan radiasi pengion yang untuk mematikan sel kanker. Sumber yang digunakan adalah sinar X atau foton. Salah satu jenis pesawat radioterapi eksternal adalah Akselerator Linear (Linac). Dalam melakukan kalibrasi alat – alat radioterapi khususnya LINAC dan dalam melakukan treatment planning system (TPS) pada kanker memerlukan seorang fisikawan medis. Observasi dilakukan dengan tahapan orientasi, observasi langsung, hingga konsultasi dan diskusi. Peran fisikawan medis meliputi perencanaan TPS, simulasi pada kanker pasien, pembuatan blok untuk melindungi organ sehat, perhitungan dosis serta melakukan penyinaran. Pentingnya peran seorang fisikawan medis dalam proses radioterapi untuk mengobati kanker serviks.