The real-time operation of a linac-MRI system will require proper radio frequency (RF) shielding such that the MRI images can be acquired without extraneous RF noise from the linac. We report on the steps taken to successfully shield the linac from the MRI such that the two devices can operate independently of one another. RF power density levels are reported internally and externally to the RF...

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) project is a collaboration among Argonne, Brookhaven, Jefferson, Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos and Oak Ridge National Laboratories. The Linac, which injects beam into an accumulator ring, is comprised of both normal and superconducting rf (SRF) accelerating structures. Two room-temperature rf structures, a 402.5-MHz drift-tube linac (DTL) and an 805-MHz coupl...

It has been suggested for quality assurance purposes that linac output variations for helical tomotherapy (HT) be within +/-2% of the long-term average. Due to cancellation of systematic uncertainty and averaging of random uncertainty over multiple beam directions, relative uncertainties in the dose distribution can be significantly lower than those in linac output. The sensitivity of four HT c...

pocket infection of a cardiac device is usually treated by removing the device and re - implanting it in a new site after complete treatment of the infection. this report illustrates a complicated case of pocket infection in the wake of the implantation of a permanent pacemaker (cardiac resynchronization therapy). the patient was treated conservatively through daily irrigation and dressing, bro...

9 The cross section for photoneutron production in Be at energies of 1. 692, 1. 720, and 1. 78 Mev has been investigated using radioisotope gamma-ray sources. Neutron counting was by manganous sulfate bath and a long counter. Gamma-ray counting was by a scintillation spectrometer consisting of a Nal(Tl) scintillation crystal and a 256-channel pulse^height analyzer. The following results were ob...

In view of a possible evolution of the CERN accelerator complex towards higher proton intensities, a 2.2 GeV H linac with 4 MW beam power has been designed, for use in connection with an accumulator and compressor ring as proton driver of a muon-based Neutrino Factory. The high-energy part of this linac can use most of the RF equipment (superconducting cavities and klystrons) from the LEP colli...

The Italian hadron-therapy centre CNAO (Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica) [1] is designed for the treatment of tumours with proton and light ion beams and to clinical and radiobiological research. The design consists of two ECR ion sources, a 7 MeV/u injector linac identical to the linac of the Heidelberg ion therapy centre HIT [2][3] and a 400 MeV/u synchrotron. GSI delivers technica...