Accelerators development for intraoperative radiation therapy

Author

Ronsivalle, C. ; Picardi, L. ; Vignati, A. ; Tata, A. ; Benassi, M.

Author_Institution

ENEA, Frascati, Italy

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2494

Abstract

The "intraoperative radiation therapy" (IORT) consists in delivering a single high dose on a tumour bed soon after surgery resection. The "IORT Project", funded by the Italian Ministry of Research (MURST), was started in 1998 from ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment) and is aimed to design and construct two innovative IORT systems (named IORT-1 and IORT-2) equipped with advanced treatment planning and real time dosimetry. These developments will improve the present IORT-NOVAC7 system, jointly developed in the latest years from ENEA and the Italian Hitesys Company. In the paper the advance status of the project is described and IORT-1 experimental results are presented with particular attention to innovative technical aspects of these new generation IORT accelerators

Keywords

biomedical equipment; dosimetry; electron accelerators; linear accelerators; radiation therapy; surgery; tumours; IORT Project; NOVAC7 system; accelerators development; advanced treatment planning; electron linear accelerator; intraoperative radiation therapy; real time dosimetry; single high dose; surgery resection; tumour bed; Biomedical applications of radiation; Electron beams; Hospitals; Ion accelerators; Light scattering; Neoplasms; Optical modulation; Particle beams; Particle scattering; Surgery;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2001. PAC 2001. Proceedings of the 2001

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7191-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2001.987808

Filename

987808