279results about "Linear accelerators" patented technology

The invention relates to a closed circulation 226Ra solution target system for producing 225Ac. The closed circulation 226Ra solution target system comprises a solution type 226Ra target, an isotope target bin, a valve, a 226Ra solution circulation structure, a radium actinide separation structure, a radium lead separation structure, a photon detection system I, a photon detection system II, a heat exchange system, a pressure reduction radon evaporator and a radon treatment system, and the solution type 226Ra target comprises a solution circulation pipeline and a radium-containing solution. The radium-containing solution is contained in the closed solution circulating pipeline; the solution circulating pipeline comprises a main loop pipeline and two branch pipelines; the photon detection system I, the 226Ra solution circulation structure, the pressure reduction radon evaporator, the heat exchange system, the valve and the photon detection system II are sequentially arranged on the main loop pipeline; and the radium actinide separation structure and the radium lead separation structure are respectively arranged on the two branch pipelines. The system can improve the preparation efficiency and yield of 225Ac.

The present invention relates to a device-produced medical isotope 225 Photonuclear reaction preparation in Ac production technology 225 Ac radium target design, specifically involving a method for producing 225 Ac's 226 Ra isotope target and its application. 226 The Ra isotope target comprises a nickel substrate, 226 Ra isotope sample, nickel electroplating layer and nickel protective shell; wherein, 226 The Ra isotope sample is evenly concentrated in the center of the nickel substrate, and the nickel electroplating layer covers 226 The outer surface of the Ra isotope sample, and the nickel substrate and nickel electroplating layer will 226 The Ra isotope sample is wrapped in the middle; the nickel protective shell wraps the nickel electroplating layer. 226 Ra isotope targets can be used in electron linear accelerators as a photonuclear reaction production 225 Ac raw material target, can improve 225 Production of Ac isotopes.

A ray generating device and a control method thereof are provided. The ray generating device includes: an electronic beam generating device; a microwave generating device; a microwave circulator, having a power input port and at least two power output ports, the power input port being connected to the microwave generating device; a plurality of accelerating tubes respectively connected to at least two power output ports, configured to respectively receive a plurality of electronic beams, and accelerate electronic beams respectively through microwaves received from the at least two power output ports, and to respectively generate a plurality of rays having at least two different energies; and a controller, configured to perform chronological control on microwave power of the microwave generating device, and chronological control on beam loadings of the electronic beams generated by the electronic beam generating device and respectively corresponding to accelerating tubes.

The present invention relates to a production 225 Closed cycle of Ac 226 Ra solution target system. The closed cycle 226 Ra solution target system includes solution type 226 Ra target, isotope target chamber, valve, 226 Ra solution circulation structure, radium-actinium separation structure, radium-lead separation structure, photon detection system I, photon detection system II, heat exchange system, vacuum radon evaporator and radon treatment system, among which, solution type 226 The Ra target includes a solution circulation pipeline and a radium-containing solution, and the radium-containing solution is contained in a closed solution circulation pipeline; the solution circulation pipeline includes a main loop pipeline and two branch pipelines; the photon detection system I, 226 The Ra solution circulation structure, vacuum radon evaporator, heat exchange system, valve and photon detection system II are sequentially arranged on the main loop pipeline; the radium-actinium separation structure and the radium-lead separation structure are respectively arranged on the two branch pipelines. 225 Preparation efficiency and yield of Ac.

The invention belongs to the field of particle accelerator microwaves, and particularly relates to a C-band compact spherical microwave pulse compression device which comprises a shell, a dual-polarization mode coupler and a circular waveguide, a spherical energy storage cavity is formed in the shell, and the circular waveguide and the spherical energy storage cavity are communicated through a coupling hole; the dual-polarization mode coupler comprises a rectangular waveguide, a butterfly-shaped matching section and a cylindrical matching section. According to the klystron radio frequency pulse compression circuit, the radio frequency pulse with the pulse width of 2.5 microseconds of the klystron can be compressed to 300ns, the average power gain in a single pulse is more than 4 times, the peak power gain is 6.3 times, and the compression efficiency is about 54%. According to the dual-polarization mode coupler, the functions of power distribution, mode conversion and polarization mode generation are synchronously realized, a TE10 mode in a rectangular waveguide is converted into two polarization TE11 modes which are equal in amplitude and orthogonal in phase, and then the two orthogonal TE114 modes are excited in a spherical energy storage cavity.

The invention provides a multi-leaf grating assembly, radiotherapy equipment and a blade locking method. The multi-leaf grating assembly comprises a frame and at least two grating blades arranged at intervals. Each grating blade is in sliding connection relative to the frame and can slide along a first direction; the device further comprises a driving device and a locking piece connected with the driving device. When the grating blade slides into the initial position in the frame, the driving device can drive the locking piece to abut against the grating blade in the second direction, and the grating blade abuts against the frame. The first direction and the second direction are perpendicular to the thickness direction of the grating blade, and the first direction and the second direction are not parallel. The driving device can drive the locking piece to abut against the grating blade so that the grating blade can abut against the frame, and therefore the grating blade is fixed through friction force between the grating blade and the frame and friction force between the grating blade and the locking piece. Therefore, mechanical collision of grating blades or weakening of mechanical collision strength in acceleration and deceleration stages of high-speed rotation of the multi-leaf grating assembly is avoided.

An ion implantation system including an ion source for generating an ion beam, an end station for holding a substrate to be implanted by the ion beam, and a linear accelerator disposed between the ion source and the end station and adapted to accelerate the ion beam, the linear accelerator including a beam tube for transmitting the ion beam, the beam tube having at least five adjoining sidewalls, at least one resonator coupled to the beam tube, and at least one turbomolecular pump coupled to the beam tube, wherein at least one of the at least five adjoining sidewalls of the beam tube has an opening formed therein for providing access to an interior of the beam tube.

The invention discloses an electron beam bunch superposition method and device, and the beam bunch energy of the head part and the tail part of an electron beam bunch is different by adopting a beam energy absorption effect. And then a plurality of alpha magnets are utilized, so that the movement path of the high-energy beam bunches at the head of the beam bunch string is long, the movement path of the low-energy beam bunches at the tail of the beam bunch string is short, and longitudinal superposition and compression of the beam bunch string are achieved. And the alpha magnet can simultaneously realize an achromatic function, so that the transmission envelope after the beam bunch is compressed and superposed is not greatly increased. And the obtained shorter pulse beam can be used for scientific research application such as nuclear data measurement.

The invention discloses a quality control method based on a medical linear accelerator, and the method comprises the following steps: S1, data collection: periodically collecting multi-source built-in parameters from the medical linear accelerator, the multi-source built-in parameters comprising beam performance parameters, mechanical performance parameters and subsystem state parameters; s2, an intelligent analysis step: performing intelligent analysis on the multi-source built-in parameters acquired in the step S1, including S2.1, a dynamic baseline comparison step; s2.2, a trend prediction step; s2.3, a root cause analysis step; and S3, a decision feedback step: generating and outputting quality control decision information according to a result of the intelligent analysis step. The quality control method based on the medical linear accelerator aims to realize predictive early warning, intelligent root cause analysis and adaptive threshold management, so that the perspectiveness, the accuracy and the automation level of quality control are improved. The invention further discloses a quality control system based on the medical linear accelerator, a storage medium and a device.

A particle accelerator includes an acceleration cavity chain and at least one energy switch side cavity. The energy switch side cavity is communicated with two adjacent main cavities in the acceleration cavity chain through coupling openings respectively. The energy switch side cavity includes a pair of asymmetric side cavity noses arranged therein and an energy switch probe arranged at a top position thereof. The energy switch probe is configured to extend from the top position of the energy switch side cavity to a space between the pair of side cavity noses.

An ion implantation system including an ion source for generating an ion beam, an end station for holding a substrate to be implanted by the ion beam, and a linear accelerator disposed between the ion source and the end station and adapted to accelerate the ion beam, the linear accelerator including a beam tube for transmitting the ion beam, the beam tube having at least five adjoining sidewalls, at least one resonator coupled to the beam tube, and at least one turbomolecular pump coupled to the beam tube, wherein at least one of the at least five adjoining sidewalls of the beam tube has an opening formed therein for providing access to an interior of the beam tube.

A linear accelerator apparatus may include a beamline enclosure that defines a polygonal backbone, and a plurality of acceleration stages, disposed along a length of the beamline enclosure. A given acceleration stage may include a drift tube assembly to conduct an ion beam therethrough, a resonator, coupled to deliver an RF signal to the drift tube assembly, and a quadrupole assembly to shape the ion beam. As such, at a first acceleration stage, a first resonator may be disposed along a first side of the polygonal backbone, and at a second acceleration stage, adjacent to and downstream of the first acceleration stage, a second resonator may be disposed along a second side of the polygonal backbone, different from the first side.

The utility model discloses a scanning magnet, a scanning box and a linear accelerator, the linear accelerator comprises the scanning box, the top of the scanning box is provided with a scanning magnet bracket, the scanning magnet is arranged above the scanning magnet bracket, the scanning magnet comprises two iron cores and two coils, each iron core comprises a middle protrusion, a connecting piece and two side protrusions, and the two coils are arranged on the middle protrusion. The two side protrusions are arranged at the two ends of the connecting piece respectively, and the middle protrusion is arranged between the side protrusions. When the scanning magnet is installed above the scanning magnet bracket, the two coils are clamped on the two sides of the scanning box through the two iron cores, the scanning magnet is fixed to the scanning magnet bracket through a fixing support, a middle protrusion penetrates through middle holes of the coils and then is connected with the scanning box, and side protrusions of the two iron cores are connected with each other. The top side face and / or the bottom side face of the middle protrusion are / is provided with a fillet structure. The scanning box can change the distribution of a deflection magnetic field, improve the distribution uniformity of electrons, prolong the service life of the scanning box and improve the use efficiency of the electrons.

An ion implantation system including an ion source for generating an ion beam, an end station for holding a substrate to be implanted by the ion beam, and a linear accelerator disposed between the ion source and the end station and adapted to accelerate the ion beam, the linear accelerator comprising at least one acceleration stage including a resonator coil coupled to a drift tube assembly, the drift tube assembly including a first drift tube coupled to a first end of a first insulting rod via interference fit, a second drift tube coupled to a first end of a second insulting rod via interference fit, and a mounting bracket coupled to a second end of the first insulting rod and to a second end of the second insulting rod via interference fit.

A radiation dose rate control method, which relates to the technology of radiation, and an accelerator (100). The control method is used for an electron linear accelerator (100) comprising a microwave source, an electron gun (102) and an accelerating tube (104). The control method comprises: when an electron linear accelerator (100) outputs a beam, monitoring a first event used for indicating a change of a beam output parameter (S610), wherein the beam output parameter comprises a pulse of an electron gun (102) and a microwave power of a microwave source, and the first event is determined by means of radiation protection requirements; and in response to monitoring the first event, cutting off the pulse of the electron gun (102), and switching a first microwave power of the microwave source to a second microwave power, so that the leakage dose rate of a radiation safety boundary is less than or equal to a first preset threshold (S620), wherein the level of dark current in an accelerating tube (104) under the second microwave power is less than or equal to a second preset threshold. Further provided are a radiation dose rate control apparatus, an accelerator (100), and a radiation apparatus.

The invention provides an accelerator system adjustment method, an accelerator system, electronic equipment and a storage medium. The transmission characteristic data and the charge quantity data of the undeflected beam are obtained through the first beam position detector, and the form and the charge quantity of the undeflected beam are accurately adjusted in combination with a preset adjustment strategy, so that the stability of beam transmission is ensured. And after the form data of the first beam reaches a preset value, monitoring the deflected beam data by using a second beam position detector, and further accurately adjusting the accelerator system to ensure that the deflected beam conforms to the target transmission characteristics. According to the invention, the transmission state of the beam can be accurately controlled in real time, risks of vacuum box breakdown and the like caused by beam mismatch are avoided, the safety and the stability of the system are improved, the possibility of equipment damage is obviously reduced especially under the high-dose-rate transient beam, and the treatment effect and the continuity of Flash radiotherapy are guaranteed.

A method of processing radiation associated with an object (22), the method comprising: providing a primary radiation source (12, 12a), a secondary radiation source (14; 14b) and a primary detector (16; 16a) in the housing; emitting primary radiation (20, 20a) onto the object by means of the primary radiation source; by means of the primary detector, a plurality of primary activity periods (76; 76a), the primary radiation having interacted with the object; and radiating the secondary radiation (24; 24b) with a secondary pulse (80; 80b) onto the object, the secondary pulses being emitted in a plurality of primary inactivity periods (78; 78a), each primary inactive period being interleaved with the primary active period; wherein no secondary pulse is emitted during the primary activity period; and wherein during each primary inactivity period, the primary detector is inactive in terms of capturing incoming radiation during the primary inactivity period.

To provide an acceleration cavity capable of switching energy of charged particles without using a complex mechanism.SOLUTION: An acceleration cavity comprises: a body that is in an electrically conductive cylindrical shape and includes a plurality of division members obtained by division using a plane along the central axis so that division surfaces along the plane are provided in a state of facing each other with a gap; a plurality of cell parts that are disposed inside the body in a state of being arranged in the axial direction of the central axis of the body and are communicated with each other using a communication part through which charged particles can pass; and a switch member that is disposed in the gap of the body, is movable in the gap along the plane, and performs movement to switch the magnitude of an electric field for accelerating the charged particles.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

The light source includes a linear accelerator for accelerating electron bunches to relativistic energies. The light source further includes a first grating downstream of the linear accelerator, which is positioned so that electron bunches pass through it to produce a diffraction pattern. The light source further includes an emittance exchange device downstream of the first grating, which rotates the diffraction pattern in a direction substantially parallel to the propagation direction of the electron bunches. The light source further includes a laser that generates light pulses. The light source is configured such that the light pulses from the laser interact with the electron bunches in an overtaking geometry at an interaction point downstream of the emittance exchange device, while the diffraction pattern is substantially parallel to the propagation direction of the electron bunches to produce light via inverse Compton scattering.

A linear accelerator apparatus suitable for radiotherapy applications such as FLASH radiotherapy, comprising an apparatus for accelerating a beam of electrons 412 provided by an injector 410 through t

Provided herein are high energy ion beam generator systems and methods that provide low cost, high performance, robust, consistent, uniform, low gas consumption and high current / high-moderate voltage generation of neutrons and protons. Such systems and methods find use for the commercial-scale generation of neutrons and protons for a wide variety of research, medical, security, and industrial processes.

This application provides a multi-leaf grating, a radiotherapy device, and a method for leaf removal. The multi-leaf grating includes a leaf frame, a first grating assembly, a first stop assembly, and a drive assembly. The leaf frame has a first leaf cavity and a first clearance groove located within the first leaf cavity, the first clearance groove extending along the width direction of the leaf frame. The first grating assembly includes a first leaf and a first limiting structure protruding from the first leaf. The first leaf is slidably disposed within the first leaf cavity along the width direction of the leaf frame, and the first limiting structure is slidably engaged with the first clearance groove. The first stop assembly is detachably disposed within the first clearance groove. The drive assembly is drively connected to the first leaf, enabling the first leaf to drive the first limiting structure to reciprocate along the first clearance groove, so that the first limiting structure abuts against or separates from the first stop assembly. The multi-leaf grating provided by this application can prevent leaf deformation and damage due to impact or detachment, thereby improving the treatment effect of the radiotherapy device and reducing leaf maintenance costs.

The invention provides a lateral coupling drift tube linear accelerator based on a modular drift tube structure, and the linear accelerator comprises a main acceleration cavity chain which is formed by sequentially arranging a plurality of acceleration cavities in a straight line, each acceleration cavity is internally provided with a plurality of drift tubes, and the structures and sizes of the plurality of drift tubes arranged in a single acceleration cavity are the same; the gaps among the plurality of drift tubes arranged in the single acceleration cavity are equal; the adjacent accelerating cavities are communicated through beam hole channels along the central axis of the main accelerating cavity chain; the permanent magnet type quadrupole lenses are arranged on the beam hole channels; and the side coupling cavities are formed in the off-axis positions between every two adjacent acceleration cavities, and the side coupling cavities are connected with the adjacent acceleration cavities through the coupling holes. The accelerator adopts a phase matching thought, so that the lengths of all the acceleration units in the same acceleration cavity and the structural sizes of the drift tubes are completely the same, the modular production and array installation of the drift tube structure are realized, and the manufacturing and testing work of the SCDTL is greatly simplified.

A device for concentrating ionizing radiation fluence is disclosed having a coupling structure linking the external radiotherapy device with linear accelerator to an external structure, whose central axis is hollow with an input window through which electrons enter attaching to the rotation device; a rotation system linking the coupling structure with a coupling flange rotating an inner structure; a deflection system in the inner structure, wherein the deflection system has first and second magnetic deflection devices; a system for controlling the focal point, which is in the electron deflection system, having an electronic control system controlling a set of motors that produce coordinated movements of the second magnetic deflection device, a correction element and a collimator, which change the position of the focal point; and at least two laser diodes on the edge of the collimator pointing towards the focal point determining the position of the electron beam generated.

The invention provides a drift tube linear accelerator on-line frequency compensation method, which comprises the following steps: firstly, constructing an initial cavity three-dimensional simulation model, judging the flatness of an axial field through calculation, and adjusting the angle of an eccentric sheet if the flatness does not reach the standard; calculating the stability of the electric field, and adjusting the length of the coupling rod if the electric field does not reach the standard; the field flatness is judged again after stability tuning, and the angle of the eccentric piece is adjusted if the field flatness does not reach the standard; a tuning block is added according to an opening of the cavity, wherein the tuning block comprises a new pickup port tuner, and a vacuum pump mesh, a fixed tuner and a rod coupler are improved; after a tuning block is added, frequency, axial field flatness and stability calculation is carried out, if the three indexes all meet requirements, compensation is ended, and otherwise, it is considered that compensation cannot be carried out; according to the method, a frequency compensation scheme can be simulated and determined, so that the field flatness and stability meet the operation requirements, and a cold test system is prevented from being rebuilt in a tunnel for field adjustment.

A medical linear accelerator configured to operate in radiotherapy may have an electron gun for emitting an electron beam. An accelerator waveguide accelerates the electron beam. A linear accelerator head defines an inner beam passage for directing the electron beam. A beam current transformer in the linear accelerator head is for monitoring the electron beam An electrostatic shield is provided in the inner beam passage, the electrostatic shield being positioned downstream of the beam current transformer for shielding the beam current transformer.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a vacuum and high voltage radio frequency system for a medical linear accelerator. A radio frequency system for a radiotherapy machine includes: a first portion including a first gas at a first pressure; a second portion comprising a second gas at a second pressure, the second gas being different from the first gas; and a component between the first portion and the second portion, the component containing a first gas at a first pressure.

The application provides a compact proton injector, comprising an ion source system, an RFQ and an IH-DTL connected in sequence, the working frequency of the RFQ and the IH-DTL is 714MHz, so that the total length of the RFQ and the IH-DTL is less than 3 meters, and the beam output energy of the IH-DTL is higher than 8MeV. The working frequency of the compact proton injector is set to 714MHz, so that the acceleration gradient of the IH-DTL can be increased to 9MV / m, and the acceleration gradient of the RFQ reaches 2MV / m, so that the total length of the RFQ and the IH-DTL is less than 3 meters, thereby reducing the volume and weight of the injector and reducing the construction cost.

Described is a method of determining whether repair or replacement of an electron gun of a radiotherapy device should be scheduled. The radiotherapy device comprises a linear accelerator and is configured to provide therapeutic radiation to a patient. The radiotherapy device comprises a vacuum tube comprising the electron gun, a waveguide configured to accelerate electrons emitted by the electron gun toward a target to produce said radiation. The radiotherapy device comprises also comprises a current sensor, the current sensor being configured to provide signals indicative of current supplied to the electron gun. The method comprises receiving a current value, processing the current value, and based on the processing of the current value, determining whether repair or replacement of the electron gun should be scheduled. Processing the current value comprises determining whether the current value meets at least one threshold criterion, and determining whether the current value has changed by at least a threshold amount in a particular time period.

This application relates to a filament power supply and a radiotherapy device. The filament power supply includes: an inverter circuit whose input terminal is connected to a DC power supply, and whose output terminal is connected to a magnetron, for converting DC power to AC power and using the AC power to provide power to the magnetron; and an adjustment circuit whose input terminal is connected to the output terminal of the inverter circuit, and whose output terminal is connected to the drive terminal of the inverter circuit, for acquiring the electrical parameters output by the inverter circuit, and generating a drive signal based on the electrical parameters and a given electrical parameter, the drive signal being used to adjust the electrical parameters output by the inverter circuit. By setting the adjustment circuit to acquire the output electrical parameters of the inverter circuit, generating the drive signal, and adjusting the output electrical parameters of the inverter circuit through the drive signal, the electrical parameters output by the inverter circuit can be accurately adjusted to the given electrical parameters required for the current application scenario, ensuring the temperature of the cathode filament in the magnetron, and further improving the service life of the magnetron.