[SEMINARI] SEMINAR: Vittorio Giorgio Vaccaro, A combined function centre for deep seated cancer therapy and for the radionuclide production for imaging and medical use

[German Rodrigo Garcia]

A combined function centre for deep seated cancer therapy and for the 
radionuclide production for imaging and medical use

Vittorio Giorgio Vaccaro
Università di Napoli “Federico II� and INFN Sezione di Napol
Friday, 16 of February of 2007     12:30 PM
IFIC's Seminar
Abstract

The use of energetic proton beams for deep seated cancer therapy is now 
well settled and applied in many centres in the world. Since 1957, 43.000 
patients have been worldwide treated. In the beginning the medical 
treatment were given elementary particles research centres. Little by 
little this kind of therapy is moving into ad hoc conceived medical 
centres. The accelerators designed for this use must satisfy some 
requirements: simple in the use , if possible, reduced dimensions and 
reduced cost. In parallel more and more the production of radionuclides 
for imaging and therapy is increasing. This production is generally made 
by means of cyclotrons of energy ranging between 10MeV and 30MeV The 
seminar will illustrate the design of a combined function centre: cancer 
therapy and the radionuclide production. It is foreseen the sequence of a 
30MeV cyclotron followed by a linear post-accelerator which brings the 
proton beam up to 240MeV. The LINAC is of the type Side Coupled (SCL). The 
working principle (linac coupled to a cyclotron) has been demonstrated in 
Laboratori del Sud of’ INFN, where a proton beam has been accelerated 
from 62MeV up to 74MeV by means of an SCL module. A second module, 
designed to accelerate protons from 30 to 35 MeV, is under construction. 
Power tests without beam and acceleration tests are foreseen on Spring and 
Fall. A business plan for this centre has been drawn up.