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SOBP forming for carbon therapy

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Central European Journal of Physics

Abstract

A ridge carbon beam filter for Spreading Out the Bragg Peak (SOBP) up to 20 mm in the targeted area has been designed and experimentally tested. The instrument was constructed of Plexiglas with a density of 1.165 g/cm3 and has a “teeth” structure with a period of 2.5 mm. The design is based on a simple analytical model and detailed GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulations. In-beam test measurements were performed with a 500-MeV/u 12C beam at the Nuclotron facility of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna. The filter can be used as a static device positioned in front of patients undergoing carbon therapy.

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  1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Joliot Curie 6, 141980, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia

    Vadim A. Babkin, Viacheslav M. Golovatyuk, Aleksandr G. Molokanov, Mihaela M. Paraipan & Gennady N. Timoshenko

  2. Politehnica University of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 313, 060042, Bucharest, Romania

    Gheorghe Cata-Danil & Mihaela M. Paraipan

  3. Institute for Space Sciences, 077125, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania

    Mihaela M. Paraipan

  4. National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania

    Gheorghe Cata-Danil

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  1. Vadim A. Babkin
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Babkin, V.A., Cata-Danil, G., Golovatyuk, V.M. et al. SOBP forming for carbon therapy. centr.eur.j.phys. 8, 683–688 (2010). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11534-009-0166-x

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