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Michael Bakaic, Matthew Hanna, Cyril Hnatovsky, Dan Grobnic, Stephen Mihailov, S. Stefan Zeisler and Cornelia Hoehr
Use of fiber optics to measure temperature and pressure in a target on a medical cyclotron.
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Carolina Belver-Aguilar, Saverio Braccini, Tommaso Stefano Carzaniga, Andreas Gsponer, Philipp Daniel Häffner, Paola Scampoli and Matthias Schmid
A novel three-dimensional non-destructive beam monitor named π3" role="presentation" style="position: relative;">??3p3
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Dave Prevost, Keerthi Jayamanna, Linda Graham, Sam Varah and Cornelia Hoehr
Cyclotrons are an important tool for accelerator sciences including the production of medical isotopes for imaging and therapy. For their successful and cost-efficient operation, the planned and unplanned down time of the cyclotron needs to be kept at a ...
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Konrad P. Nesteruk, Luca Ramseyer, Tommaso S. Carzaniga and Saverio Braccini
Accurate knowledge of the beam energy distribution is crucial for particle accelerators, compact medical cyclotrons for the production of radioisotopes in particular. For this purpose, a compact instrument was developed, based on a multi-leaf Faraday cup...
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Mateusz Sitarz, Etienne Nigron, Arnaud Guertin, Férid Haddad and Tomasz Matulewicz
The production of 97Ru, a potential Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) radioisotope, was studied at ARRONAX. The cross-section of natMo(a,x)97Ru reaction was investigated in the range of 40?67 MeV irradiating the natMo and Al stacked-foil...
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Hanna Skliarova, Sara Cisternino, Gianfranco Cicoria, Mario Marengo, Emiliano Cazzola, Giancarlo Gorgoni and Vincenzo Palmieri
Magnetron sputtering is proposed here as an innovative method for the deposition of a material layer onto an appropriate backing plate for cyclotron solid targets aimed at medical radioisotopes production. In this study, a method to deposit thick, high-d...
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Philipp Häffner, Carolina Belver Aguilar, Saverio Braccini, Paola Scampoli and Pierre Alexandre Thonet
The medical cyclotron at the Bern University Hospital (Inselspital) is used for both routine 18" role="presentation" style="position: relative;">1818
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Saverio Braccini and Francisco Alves
The 17th Workshop on Targets and Target Chemistry (WTTC17) was held in Coimbra (Portugal) on 27?31 August 2018. A few months before, the 13th Workshop of the European Cyclotron Network (CYCLEUR) took place in Lisbon (Portugal) on 23?24 November 2017. The...
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Roland Schnuerer, Jacinta Yap, Hao Zhang, Tomasz Cybulski, Tony Smith, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Girard, Tomasz Szumlak and Carsten Welsch
Knowledge of the beam properties in proton therapy through beam monitoring is essential, ensuring an effective dose delivery to the patient. In clinical practice, currently used interceptive ionisation chambers require daily calibration and suffer from a...
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William Z. Gelbart and Richard R. Johnson
A significant number of medical radioisotopes use solid, often metallic, parent materials. These materials are deposited on a substrate to facilitate the cooling and handling of the target during placing, irradiation, and processing. The processing requi...
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