Feasibility of proton FLASH irradiation using a synchrocyclotron for preclinical studies
Medical Physics2020Vol. 47(9), pp. 4348–4355
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Arash Darafsheh, Yao Hao, T. Zwart, Miles Wagner, Daniel Catanzano, Jeffrey F. Williamson, Nels Knutson, Baozhou Sun, Sasa Mutic, Tianyu Zhao
Abstract
It is feasible to deliver protons at 100 and 200 Gy/s average dose rate at the plateau and the Bragg peak, respectively, in a small ~1 cm2 field using a gantry-mounted synchrocyclotron.
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