Compact accelerator for medical therapy

US7710051B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC · US

Inventors

• George J. Caporaso · Livermore, US
• Yu-Jiuan Chen · Fremont, US
• Steven A. Hawkins · Livermore, US
• Stephen E. Sampayan · Manteca, US
• Arthur C. Paul · Walnut Creek, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 24, 2006
• Grant date: May 4, 2010
• Expiry date: Sep 26, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H05H7/02
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A compact accelerator system having an integrated particle generator-linear accelerator with a compact, small-scale construction capable of producing an energetic (˜70-250 MeV) proton beam or other nuclei and transporting the beam direction to a medical therapy patient without the need for bending magnets or other hardware often required for remote beam transport. The integrated particle generator-accelerator is actuable as a unitary body on a support structure to enable scanning of a particle beam by direction actuation of the particle generator-accelerator.