141 |
Electron Injector and Free Electron Laser |
US15600149 |
2017-05-19 |
US20170264071A1 |
2017-09-14 |
Andrey Alexandrovich NIKIPELOV; Vadim Yevgenyevich Banine; Pieter Willem Herman De Jager; Gosse Charles De Vries; Olav Waldemar Vladimir Frijns; Leonardus Adrianus Gerardus Grimminck; Andelko Katalenic; Johannes Antonius Gerardus Akkermans; Erik Loopstra; Wouter Joep Engelen; Petrus Rutgerus Bartraij; Teis Johan Coenen; Wilhelmus Patrick Elisabeth Maria Op 'T Root |
A photocathode comprises a substrate in which a cavity is formed and a film of material disposed on the substrate. The film of material comprises an electron emitting surface configured to emit electrons when illuminated by a beam of radiation. The electron emitting surface is on an opposite side of the film of material from the cavity. |
142 |
Synchrotron injector system, and synchrotron system operation method |
US15024737 |
2013-11-26 |
US09661735B2 |
2017-05-23 |
Kazuo Yamamoto; Sadahiro Kawasaki; Hiromitsu Inoue |
A synchrotron injector system comprising a first ion source which generates a first ion, a second ion source which generates a second ion having a smaller charge-to-mass ratio than a charge-to-mass ratio of the first ion, a pre-accelerator having the capability to enable to accelerate both the first ion and the second ion, a low-energy beam transport line which is constituted in such a way to inject either the first ion or the second ion into the pre-accelerator, and a self-focusing type post-accelerator which accelerates only the first ion after acceleration which is emitted from the pre-accelerator. |
143 |
Multi-axis charged particle cancer therapy method and apparatus |
US15228514 |
2016-08-04 |
US09649510B2 |
2017-05-16 |
Vladimir Balakin |
The invention comprises a multi-axis charged particle irradiation method and apparatus. The multi-axis controls includes separate or independent control of one or more of horizontal position, vertical position, energy control, and intensity control of the charged particle irradiation beam. Optionally, the charged particle beam is additionally controlled in terms of timing. Timing is coordinated with patient respiration and/or patient rotational positioning. Combined, the system allows multi-axis and multi-field charged particle irradiation of tumors yielding precise and accurate irradiation dosages to a tumor with distribution of harmful proximal distal energy about the tumor. |
144 |
Charged particle beam generator, charged particle irradiation system, method for operating charged particle beam generator and method for operating charged particle irradiation system |
US14926501 |
2015-10-29 |
US09596746B2 |
2017-03-14 |
Kazunori Tsubuku; Masumi Umezawa; Takashi Iga; Kouji Tobinaga |
Provided are a charged particle beam generation apparatus, a charged particle beam irradiation apparatus, a particle beam therapy system, and a charged particle beam generation apparatus operating method capable of implementing injection of a charged particle beam into a circular accelerator at an arbitrary timing by setting a normal operation period of a linear accelerator to be larger than a shortest period and securing a stability of the beam. In timing control of controlling injecting, accelerating, emitting, and decelerating processes of a synchrotron (200), after an end of the emitting process, a linear accelerator (111) is allowed to stop repetition of an operation based on an after-end-of-emitting-process timing signal to be in a stand-by state and is allowed to be start the repetition of the operation in a constant period based on a master signal. |
145 |
LINEAR ACCELERATOR ACCELERATING MODULE TO SUPPRESS BACK-ACCELERATION OF FIELD-EMITTED PARTICLES |
US15260101 |
2016-09-08 |
US20170071054A1 |
2017-03-09 |
Stephen V. Benson; Frank Marhauser; David R. Douglas; Lucas J. P. Ament |
A method for the suppression of upstream-directed field emission in RF accelerators. The method is not restricted to a certain number of cavity cells, but requires similar operating field levels in all cavities to efficiently annihilate the once accumulated energy. Such a field balance is desirable to minimize dynamic RF losses, but not necessarily achievable in reality depending on individual cavity performance, such as early Q0-drop or quench field. The method enables a significant energy reduction for upstream-directed electrons within a relatively short distance. As a result of the suppression of upstream-directed field emission, electrons will impact surfaces at rather low energies leading to reduction of dark current and less issues with heating and damage of accelerator components as well as radiation levels including neutron generation and thus radio-activation. |
146 |
Plasma thruster and method for generating a plasma propulsion thrust |
US14369282 |
2012-12-19 |
US09591741B2 |
2017-03-07 |
Serge Larigaldie |
The invention, which relates to a miniaturizable plasma thruster, consists of: —igniting the plasma by microhollow cathode discharge close to the outlet and inside the means for injecting the propellant gas, said injection means being magnetic and comprising a tip at the downstream end thereof; —bringing the electrons of the magnetized plasma into gyromagnetic rotation, at the outlet end of said injection means; —sustaining the plasma by means of Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR), said injection means being metal and being used as an antenna for electromagnetic (EM) emission, the volume of ECR plasma at the outlet of said injection means being used as a resonant cavity of the EM wave; —accelerating the plasma in a magnetic nozzle by diamagnetic force, the ejected plasma being electrically neutral. |
147 |
MULTI-AXIS CHARGED PARTICLE CANCER THERAPY METHOD AND APPARATUS |
US15228514 |
2016-08-04 |
US20170056690A1 |
2017-03-02 |
Vladimir Balakin |
The invention comprises a multi-axis charged particle irradiation method and apparatus. The multi-axis controls includes separate or independent control of one or more of horizontal position, vertical position, energy control, and intensity control of the charged particle irradiation beam. Optionally, the charged particle beam is additionally controlled in terms of timing. Timing is coordinated with patient respiration and/or patient rotational positioning. Combined, the system allows multi-axis and multi-field charged particle irradiation of tumors yielding precise and accurate irradiation dosages to a tumor with distribution of harmful proximal distal energy about the tumor. |
148 |
ELECTRON INJECTOR AND FREE ELECTRON LASER |
US15035674 |
2014-11-27 |
US20160301180A1 |
2016-10-13 |
Andrey Alexandrovich NIKIPELOV; Vadim Yevgenyevich BANINE; Pieter Willem Herman DE JAGER; Gosse Charles DE VRIES; Olav Waldemar Vladimir FRIJNS; Leonardus Adrianus Gerardus GRIMMINCK; Andelko KATALENIC; Johannes Antonius Gerardus AKKERMANS; Erik LOOPSTRA; Wouter Joep ENGELEN; Petrus Rutgerus BARTRAIJ; Teis Johan COENEN; Wilhelmus Patrick Elisabeth Maria OP 'T ROOT |
An injector arrangement for providing an electron beam. The injector arrangement comprises a first injector for providing electron bunches, and a second injector for providing electrons bunches. The injector arrangement is operable in a first mode in which the electron beam comprises electron bunches provided by the first injector only and a second mode in which the electron beam comprises electron bunches provided by the second injector only. |
149 |
METHOD AND SYSTEM OF BEAM INJECTION TO CHARGED PARTICLE STORAGE RING |
US15033740 |
2013-11-07 |
US20160255712A1 |
2016-09-01 |
Hironari YAMADA |
The charged particle storage system includes: a storage ring circulating, by a perturbating device, charged particles injected from outside; a power source supplying an electric current to the perturbating device; and a charged particle beam generating device. The charged particle beam generating device includes a DC accelerator that generates a constant voltage to accelerate electrons and thereby generates a beam of the electrons. While a current having its current intensity changing in a sinusoidal wave is caused to flow through the perturbating device continuously for at least 10 μs by a power source, an electron beam output from the charged particle beam generating device is injected to the storage ring continuously for at least 10 μs. Thus, a current larger than that stored by the conventional resonance injection method can be stored in the storage ring, and an X-ray having higher intensity can be generated. |
150 |
Method of manufacturing radio frequency accelerator, radio frequency accelerator, and circular accelerator system |
US14653012 |
2013-02-28 |
US09402298B2 |
2016-07-26 |
Kengo Sugahara; Kazushi Hanakawa; Yasuto Kishii; Kazuo Yamamoto |
A method of manufacturing a radio frequency accelerator that accelerates charged particles injected into a second-stage linear accelerator from a first-stage linear accelerator includes a step of setting a value of a power distribution factor R for the power distributor to supply radio frequency power to the second-stage linear accelerator and a value of a ratio L/ω of a length L of the matching section between the outlet of the first-stage linear accelerator and the inlet of the second-stage linear accelerator to the angular frequency ω of the radio frequency power, so that a charged particle beam is extracted from the second-stage linear accelerator over a range of the total radio frequency power wider than a widest allowable range among allowable total radio frequency power ranges determined for each phase of charged particles on the basis of phase acceptance of the second-stage accelerator. |
151 |
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. |
152 |
Photocathode high-frequency electron-gun cavity apparatus |
US13825918 |
2011-09-26 |
US09224571B2 |
2015-12-29 |
Junji Urakawa; Nobuhiro Terunuma; Toshikazu Takatomi |
A photocathode high-frequency electron-gun cavity apparatus of the present invention is provided with a high-frequency acceleration cavity (1), a photocathode (8, 15), a laser entering port (9), a high-frequency power input coupler port (10), and a high-frequency resonant tuner (16). Here, the apparatus adopts an ultra-small high-frequency accelerator cavity which contains a cavity cell formed only with a smooth and curved surface at an inner face thereof without having a sharp angle part for preventing discharging, obtaining higher strength of high-frequency electric field, and improving high-frequency resonance stability. Further, the photocathode is arranged at an end part of a half cell (5) of the high-frequency acceleration cavity for maximizing electric field strength at the photocathode face, perpendicular incidence of laser is ensured by arranging a laser entering port at a position facing to the photocathode behind an electron beam extraction port of the high-frequency acceleration cavity for maximizing quality of short-bunch photoelectrons, and a high-frequency power input coupler port is arranged at a side part of the cell of the high-frequency acceleration cavity for enhancing high-frequency electric field strength. According to the above, it is possible to provide a small photocathode high-frequency electron-gun cavity apparatus capable of generating a high-strength and high-quality electron beam. |
153 |
Circular accelerator and particle beam therapy apparatus |
US14559111 |
2014-12-03 |
US09162082B2 |
2015-10-20 |
Akihiro Osanai |
One embodiment of a particle circular accelerator 1 includes: a beam deflector for beam injections, bending electromagnets that causes the beam injected from the beam deflector for beam injections to circulate so as to form a circulation orbit, orbit adjusting electromagnets for injected beams that shift the position of each injected beam relative to the center of the circulation orbit of the beam, quadrupole electromagnets and sextupole electromagnets that adjust their respective quantities of magnetic excitation at the time of a beam extraction so as to extract a beam in a resonant region off a stable reason of beams and a beam deflector for beam extractions that takes out the beam extracted from the resonant region to the outside. The circular accelerator 1 injects beams from the inner side thereof and emits beams to the outer side thereof. |
154 |
MULTI-AXIS CHARGED PARTICLE CANCER THERAPY METHOD AND APPARATUS |
US14493322 |
2014-09-22 |
US20150217140A1 |
2015-08-06 |
Vladimir Balakin |
The invention comprises a multi-axis charged particle irradiation method and apparatus. The multi-axis controls includes separate or independent control of one or more of horizontal position, vertical position, energy control, and intensity control of the charged particle irradiation beam. Optionally, the charged particle beam is additionally controlled in terms of timing. Timing is coordinated with patient respiration and/or patient rotational positioning. Combined, the system allows multi-axis and multi-field charged particle irradiation of tumors yielding precise and accurate irradiation dosages to a tumor with distribution of harmful proximal distal energy about the tumor. |
155 |
CIRCULAR ACCELERATOR AND PARTICLE BEAM THERAPY APPARATUS |
US14559111 |
2014-12-03 |
US20150157881A1 |
2015-06-11 |
Akihiro OSANAI |
One embodiment of a particle circular accelerator 1 includes: a beam deflector for beam injections, bending electromagnets that causes the beam injected from the beam deflector for beam injections to circulate so as to form a circulation orbit, orbit adjusting electromagnets for injected beams that shift the position of each injected beam relative to the center of the circulation orbit of the beam, quadrupole electromagnets and sextupole electromagnets that adjust their respective quantities of magnetic excitation at the time of a beam extraction so as to extract a beam in a resonant region off a stable reason of beams and a beam deflector for beam extractions that takes out the beam extracted from the resonant region to the outside. The circular accelerator 1 injects beams from the inner side thereof and emits beams to the outer side thereof. |
156 |
Treatment delivery control system and method of operation thereof |
US13789235 |
2013-03-07 |
US08975600B2 |
2015-03-10 |
Vladimir Balakin |
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for control of a charged particle cancer therapy system. A treatment delivery control system is used to directly control multiple subsystems of the cancer therapy system without direct communication between selected subsystems, which enhances safety, simplifies quality assurance and quality control, and facilitates programming. For example, the treatment delivery control system directly controls one or more of: an imaging system, a positioning system, an injection system, a radio-frequency quadrupole system, a ring accelerator or synchrotron, an extraction system, a beam line, an irradiation nozzle, a gantry, a display system, a targeting system, and a verification system. Generally, the control system integrates subsystems and/or integrates output of one or more of the above described cancer therapy system elements with inputs of one or more of the above described cancer therapy system elements. |
157 |
System and Method for Delivering an Ultra-High Dose of Radiation Therapy |
US14323087 |
2014-07-03 |
US20150011817A1 |
2015-01-08 |
Yuxin Feng |
Ultra high dose rate approach was proposed to irradiate to a moving target in radiation therapy in which the prescribed radiation dose was delivered within such a short time period that the displacement of the target could be ignored during dose delivering. The advantages of the approach were evaluated based on normal tissue sparing, flexibility of accuracy of targeting, and time saving in clinical treatment. A system and method of generating of ultra high dose rate combines and utilizes both a linear accelerator and a storage ring. |
158 |
Multi-axis charged particle cancer therapy method and apparatus |
US12994120 |
2009-05-21 |
US08901509B2 |
2014-12-02 |
Vladimir Yegorovich Balakin |
The invention comprises a multi-axis charged particle irradiation method and apparatus. The multi-axis controls includes separate or independent control of one or more of horizontal position, vertical position, energy control, and intensity control of the charged particle irradiation beam. Optionally, the charged particle beam is additionally controlled in terms of timing. Timing is coordinated with patient respiration and/or patient rotational positioning. Combined, the system allows multi-axis and multi-field charged particle irradiation of tumors yielding precise and accurate irradiation dosages to a tumor with distribution of harmful proximal distal energy about the tumor. |
159 |
TREATMENT DELIVERY CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF |
US13789235 |
2013-03-07 |
US20140257099A1 |
2014-09-11 |
Vladimir Balakin |
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for control of a charged particle cancer therapy system. A treatment delivery control system is used to directly control multiple subsystems of the cancer therapy system without direct communication between selected subsystems, which enhances safety, simplifies quality assurance and quality control, and facilitates programming. For example, the treatment delivery control system directly controls one or more of: an imaging system, a positioning system, an injection system, a radio-frequency quadrupole system, a ring accelerator or synchrotron, an extraction system, a beam line, an irradiation nozzle, a gantry, a display system, a targeting system, and a verification system. Generally, the control system integrates subsystems and/or integrates output of one or more of the above described cancer therapy system elements with inputs of one or more of the above described cancer therapy system elements. |
160 |
Multi-field charged particle cancer therapy method and apparatus |
US12994130 |
2009-05-21 |
US08766217B2 |
2014-07-01 |
Vladimir Yegorovich Balakin |
The invention comprises a multi-field charged particle irradiation method and apparatus. Radiation is delivered through an entry point into the tumor and Bragg peak energy is targeted to a distal or far side of the tumor from an ingress point. Delivering Bragg peak energy to the distal side of the tumor from the ingress point is repeated from multiple rotational directions. Preferably, beam intensity is proportional to radiation dose delivery efficiency. Preferably, the charged particle therapy is timed to patient respiration via control of charged particle beam injection, acceleration, extraction, and/or targeting methods and apparatus. Optionally, multi-axis control of the charged particle beam is used simultaneously with the multi-field irradiation. Combined, the system allows multi-field and multi-axis charged particle irradiation of tumors yielding precise and accurate irradiation dosages to a tumor with distribution of harmful irradiation energy about the tumor. |