Induced Radioactivity in Medical Accelerators

Predicting Induced Radioactivity at High Energy Accelerators

[Evaluation of a risk communication approach for maintenance staff working with induced radioactivity in medical linear accelerators].

In order to promote consensus building on decommissioning operation rules for medical linear accelerators in Japan, we carried out a risk communication (RC) approach mainly providing knowledge for maintenance staff regarding induced radioactivity. In February 2012, we created a booklet (26 pages) to present an overview of the amended law, the mechanism and the distribution of induced radioactiv...

Accelerators for Medical Applications

About 50% of the ten thousands particle accelerators at present running in the world are devoted to medical applications. The main areas of use are: (i) radioisotope production, (ii) conventional radiotherapy with electron and photon beams, (iii) oncological hadrontherapy. In this review paper it is shown that in all these areas there are new developments which are scientifically interesting an...

Undesirable Radioisotopes Induced by Therapeutic Beams from Medical Linear Accelerators

Optimization of Medical Accelerators*

The Optimization of Medical Accelerators (OMA) is the aim of a new European training network. OMA joins universities, research centers and clinical facilities with industry partners to address the challenges in treatment facility design and optimization, numerical simulations for advanced treatment schemes, and beam imaging and treatment monitoring. Projects include: compact accelerators for pr...