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Adjusting energy of a particle beam

US9706636B2 · kind B2 · utility

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25Claims

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Assignee

Mevion Medical Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

Gerrit Townsend Zwart · Durham, US
Kenneth P. Gall · Harvard, US
Jan Van der Laan · Danvers, US
Stanley J. Rosenthal · Wayland, US
Michael Busky · Berlin, US
Charles D. O'Neal, III · Bolton, US
Ken Yoshiki Franzen · Acton, US

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 18, 2016
Grant date	Jul 11, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 18, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH05H2007/004
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

An example particle accelerator includes a coil to provide a magnetic field to a cavity; a particle source to provide a plasma column to the cavity; a voltage source to provide a radio frequency (RF) voltage to the cavity to accelerate particles from the plasma column, where the magnetic field causes particles accelerated from the plasma column to move orbitally within the cavity; an enclosure containing an extraction channel to receive the particles accelerated from the plasma column and to output the received particles from the cavity; and a structure arranged proximate to the extraction channel to change an energy level of the received particles.

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