121 |
Beam transport system and particle beam therapy system |
US14891922 |
2013-07-11 |
US09630027B2 |
2017-04-25 |
Kazushi Hanakawa; Kengo Sugahara; Shuhei Odawara |
In a beam transport system, based on a beam temporal-variation related amount that has been calculated by a beam analyzer and that is a beam-position temporal variation amount or a beam diameter at a beam profile monitor, an optical parameter calculator calculates a start-point momentum dispersion function that is a momentum dispersion function (η, η′) of a charged particle beam at a start point in design of the beam transport system that is set on a beam trajectory of the accelerator; and calculates optical parameters using, as an initial condition, the start-point momentum dispersion function and a beginning condition at an irradiation position at the time of detecting profile data. |
122 |
Magnetic field regenerator |
US14039652 |
2013-09-27 |
US09622335B2 |
2017-04-11 |
Kenneth P. Gall; Gerrit Townsend Zwart; Jan Van Der Laan; Ken Yoshiki Franzen |
An example particle accelerator includes the following: a voltage source to provide a radio frequency (RF) voltage to a cavity to accelerate particles from a plasma column, where the cavity has a magnetic field causing particles accelerated from the plasma column to move orbitally within the cavity; an extraction channel to receive the particles accelerated from the plasma column and to output the received particles from the cavity; and a regenerator to provide a magnetic field bump within the cavity to thereby change successive orbits of the particles accelerated from the plasma column so that, eventually, particles output to the extraction channel. The magnetic field is at least 6 Tesla and the magnetic field bump is at most 2 Tesla. |
123 |
INNER GANTRY |
US15221855 |
2016-07-28 |
US20170028224A1 |
2017-02-02 |
Kenneth P. Gall; Stanley J. Rosenthal; Gordon D. Row; Michael J. Ahearn |
A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target. |
124 |
Method and arrangement to generate few optical cycle coherent electromagnetic radiation in the EUV-VUV domain |
US14773006 |
2014-03-05 |
US09548584B2 |
2017-01-17 |
Gábor Almási; János Hebling; Mátyás Mechler; György Tóth; Zoltán Tibai |
The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement to generate a coherent electromagnetic radiation containing at most a few optical cycles in the extreme ultraviolet/vacuum ultraviolet domain. The inventive method comprises the steps of providing an electron package (15) of relativistic velocity; modulating said electron package (15) with high intensity laser light (17) in an undulator (20) having an undulator period smaller than the undulator period (λu) satisfying the resonance condition, producing thereby an electron package formed of electron microbunches; and passing the electron package (15) of electron microbunches leaving said undulator (20) through a static magnetic field, and generating thereby a coherent electromagnetic radiation, wherein said static magnetic field is generated in conformity with the coherent electromagnetic radiation to be achieved. The arrangement comprises means for providing an electron package (15) of relativistic velocity; means for providing high-intensity laser light (17); a first undulator (20) arranged in the propagation direction of the electron package (15) of relativistic velocity, said first undulator being adapted to receive the electron package (16) and the laser light (17) simultaneously and to induce an interaction thereof, said interaction resulting in the microbunching of the electron package (15), wherein the undulator period of said first undulator (20) being smaller than the undulator period (λu) satisfying the resonance condition; and a second undulator (3) arranged in the propagation direction of the electron package (15) after said first undulator (20), said second undulator (30) generating a magnetic field in conformity with the coherent electromagnetic radiation to be generated. |
125 |
Proton irradiation using spot scanning |
US13043208 |
2011-03-08 |
US09539442B2 |
2017-01-10 |
Holger Goebel |
In one embodiment of the invention, a method for irradiating a target is disclosed. A proton beam is generated using a cyclotron. A first information is provided to an energy selection system. An energy level for the protons is selected using an energy selection system based on the first information. The first information comprises a depth of said target. The proton beam is routed from the cyclotron through a beam transfer line to a scanning system. A second information is provided to the scanning system. The second information comprises a pair of transversal coordinates. The proton beam is guided to a location on the target determined by the second information using a magnet structure. The target is irradiated with the protons. |
126 |
Inner gantry |
US14542966 |
2014-11-17 |
US09452301B2 |
2016-09-27 |
Kenneth P. Gall; Stanley Rosenthal; Gordon D. Row; Michael J. Ahearn |
A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target. |
127 |
Method of Reducing Multipole Content In A Conductor Assembly During Manufacture |
US13804844 |
2013-03-14 |
US20160163440A9 |
2016-06-09 |
Rainer Meinke |
A method for manufacture of a conductor assembly. The assembly is of the type which, when conducting current, generates a magnetic field or in which, in the presence of a changing magnetic field, a voltage is induced. In an example embodiment one or more first coil rows are formed. The assembly has multiple coil rows about an axis with outer coil rows formed about inner coil rows. A determination is made of deviations from specifications associated with the formed one or more first coil rows. One or more deviations correspond to a magnitude of a multipole field component which departs from a field specification. Based on the deviations, one or more wiring patterns are generated for one or more second coil rows to be formed about the one or more first coil rows. The one or more second coil rows are formed in the assembly. The magnitude of each multipole field component that departs from the field specification is offset |
128 |
BEAM TRANSPORT SYSTEM AND PARTICLE BEAM THERAPY SYSTEM |
US14891922 |
2013-07-11 |
US20160144202A1 |
2016-05-26 |
Kazushi HANAKAWA; Kengo SUGAHARA; Shuhei ODAWARA |
In a beam transport system, based on a beam temporal-variation related amount that has been calculated by a beam analyzer and that is a beam-position temporal variation amount or a beam diameter at a beam profile monitor, an optical parameter calculator calculates a start-point momentum dispersion function that is a momentum dispersion function (η, η′) of a charged particle beam at a start point in design of the beam transport system that is set on a beam trajectory of the accelerator; and calculates optical parameters using, as an initial condition, the start-point momentum dispersion function and a beginning condition at an irradiation position at the time of detecting profile data. |
129 |
Method of reducing multipole content in a conductor assembly during manufacture |
US13804844 |
2013-03-14 |
US09349513B2 |
2016-05-24 |
Rainer Meinke |
A method for manufacture of a conductor assembly. The assembly is of the type which, when conducting current, generates a magnetic field or in which, in the presence of a changing magnetic field, a voltage is induced. In an example embodiment one or more first coil rows are formed. The assembly has multiple coil rows about an axis with outer coil rows formed about inner coil rows. A determination is made of deviations from specifications associated with the formed one or more first coil rows. One or more deviations correspond to a magnitude of a multipole field component which departs from a field specification. Based on the deviations, one or more wiring patterns are generated for one or more second coil rows to be formed about the one or more first coil rows. The one or more second coil rows are formed in the assembly. The magnitude of each multipole field component that departs from the field specification is offset. |
130 |
ELECTRON ACCELERATOR HAVING A COAXIAL CAVITY |
US14891300 |
2014-05-15 |
US20160113104A1 |
2016-04-21 |
Michel ABS |
Disclosed embodiments include an electron accelerator, having a resonant cavity having an outer conductor and an inner conductor; an electron source configured to generate and to inject a beam of electrons transversally into the resonant cavity; a radio frequency (RF) source coupled to the resonant cavity and configured to: energize the resonant cavity with an RF power at a nominal RF frequency, and generate an electric field into said resonant cavity that accelerates the electrons of the electron beam a plurality of times into the cavity and according to successive and different transversal trajectories; and at least one deflecting magnet configured to bend back the electron beam that emerges out of the cavity and to redirect the electron beam towards the cavity. |
131 |
Adjusting energy of a particle beam |
US14039342 |
2013-09-27 |
US09301384B2 |
2016-03-29 |
Gerrit Townsend Zwart; Kenneth P. Gall; Jan Van der Laan; Stanley Rosenthal; Michael Busky; Charles D O'Neal, III; Ken Yoshiki Franzen |
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. |
132 |
Surface-micromachined micro-magnetic undulator |
US14355127 |
2012-11-09 |
US09247630B2 |
2016-01-26 |
Jere Harrison; Abhijeet Joshi |
Various embodiments of undulators, methods of fabricating undulators, and systems incorporating undulators are described. Certain embodiments provide a compact, electromagnetic undulator. The undulator may comprise a substrate and one or more electromagnets, which may be formed on the substrate. Certain embodiments have a period not greater than about 5 mm. The undulator may be operatively coupled with a particle accelerator to provide a free electron laser system. |
133 |
ION IRRADIATION DEVICE AND ION IRRADIATION METHOD |
US14833533 |
2015-08-24 |
US20160013011A1 |
2016-01-14 |
Takumi YUZE; Toshihiro TERASAWA |
Positive ions that fly within an ion acceleration tube are accelerated by a plurality of acceleration electrodes arranged within the ion acceleration tube and are irradiated to an irradiation target. A plurality of magnet devices is arranged within the ion acceleration tube; the directions of the lines of magnetic force formed respectively by the magnet devices are made to differ between the adjacent magnet devices by an angle of more than 0 degree and at most 90 degrees or less; and each of the lines of magnetic force is rotated in one direction within the ion acceleration tube. Electrons travelling in reverse within the ion acceleration tube are made to intersect the lines of magnetic force, and made to increase a distance from a flying axis while traveling in reverse. Since the electrons collide with members within the ion acceleration tube and stop before having high energy, high-energy X-rays are not generated. |
134 |
Septum magnet |
US14342820 |
2012-08-30 |
US09236176B2 |
2016-01-12 |
Kei Sugita |
A device for generating a magnetic field includes at least one electric coil having electric conductors that are arranged along a circular arc within a first angular range and that deviate from the circular arc within a second angular range. At least one magnetic yoke is arranged along a part of the first angular range. |
135 |
Magnetic shims to alter magnetic fields |
US14039073 |
2013-09-27 |
US09185789B2 |
2015-11-10 |
Gerrit Townsend Zwart; Jan Van der Laan; Kenneth P. Gall; Stanislaw P. Sobczynski |
An example particle accelerator includes a coil to provide a magnetic field to a cavity; a cryostat comprising a chamber for holding the coil, where the coil is arranged in the chamber to define an interior region of the coil and an exterior region of the coil; magnetic structures adjacent to the cryostat, where the magnetic structures have one or more slots at least part-way therethrough; and one or more magnetic shims in one or more corresponding slots. The one or more magnetic shims are movable to adjust a position of the coil by changing a magnetic field produced by the magnetic structures. |
136 |
WIRING OF ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS OF FORMING CHANNELS IN WIRING ASSEMBLIES |
US14650303 |
2013-12-06 |
US20150318102A1 |
2015-11-05 |
Rainer Meinke; Gregory J. Shoultz; Gerald M. Stelzer; Ferdinand M. Romano |
A conductor assembly and method for making an assembly of the type which, when conducting current, generates a magnetic field or which, in the presence of a changing magnetic field, induces a voltage. In one series of embodiments the assembly comprises a spiral configuration, positioned along paths in a series of concentric cylindrical planes, with a continuous series of connected turns, each turn including a first arc, a second arc and first and second straight segments connected to one another by the first arc. Each of the first and second straight segments in a turn is spaced apart from an adjacent straight segment in an adjoining turn. |
137 |
Focusing a particle beam using magnetic field flutter |
US14039084 |
2013-09-27 |
US09155186B2 |
2015-10-06 |
Gerrit Townsend Zwart; Kenneth P. Gall; Jan Van der Laan; Charles D. O'Neal, III; Ken Yoshiki Franzen |
An example particle accelerator may include the following: a voltage source to sweep a radio frequency (RF) voltage in a cavity to accelerate particles from a plasma column, where the cavity has a magnetic field causing particles accelerated from the plasma column to move orbitally within the cavity, and where the magnetic field has flux that bows at edges of the cavity; a regenerator to provide a magnetic field bump within the cavity to thereby change successive orbits of the particles accelerated from the plasma column so that, eventually, particles output to an extraction point, where the regenerator is located at a radius in the cavity relative to the plasma column; and ferromagnetic arrangements located in the cavity proximate to the radius, where each ferromagnetic arrangement provides a magnetic field bump, and where ferromagnetic arrangements adjacent to the regenerator are separated from the regenerator by a space. |
138 |
SCANNING SYSTEM |
US14184990 |
2014-02-20 |
US20150231411A1 |
2015-08-20 |
Charles D. O'Neal, III; Adam C. Molzahn |
An example particle therapy system includes: a particle accelerator to output a beam of charged particles; and a scanning system to scan the beam across at least part of an irradiation target. An example scanning system includes: a scanning magnet to move the beam during scanning; and a control system (i) to control the scanning magnet to produce uninterrupted movement of the beam over at least part of a depth-wise layer of the irradiation target so as to deliver doses of charged particles to the irradiation target; and (ii) to determine, in synchronism with delivery of a dose, information identifying the dose actually delivered at different positions along the depth-wise layer. |
139 |
EUV LIGHT SOURCE FOR GENERATING A USABLE OUTPUT BEAM FOR A PROJECTION EXPOSURE APPARATUS |
US14636413 |
2015-03-03 |
US20150173163A1 |
2015-06-18 |
Ingo Saenger; Manfred Maul; Christoph Hennerkes; Johannes Ruoff; Daniel Kraehmer |
An EUV light source serves for generating a usable output beam of EUV illumination light for a projection exposure apparatus for projection lithography. The light source has an EUV generation device which generates an EUV raw output beam. The latter is circularly polarized. For the purposes of setting the polarization of the usable output beam and in respect of the polarization direction, a polarization setting device has a linearly polarizing effect on the raw output beam. This results in an EUV light source, which provides an improved output beam for a resolution-optimized illumination. |
140 |
DC high-voltage super-radiant free-electron based EUV source |
US13779331 |
2013-02-27 |
US09053833B2 |
2015-06-09 |
Tomas Plettner |
An array of spatially separated beamlets is produced by a corresponding array of charged particle emitters. Each emitter is at an electrostatic potential difference with respect to an immediately adjacent emitter in the array. The beamlets are converged laterally to form an charged particle beam. The beam is modulated longitudinally with infrared radiation to form a modulated beam. The charged particles in the modulated beam are bunched longitudinally to form a bunched beam. The bunched beam may be modulated with an undulator to generate a coherent radiation output. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. |