Charged particle cancer therapy installation system

    公开(公告)号:US10118052B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-06

    申请号:US15727596

    申请日:2017-10-07

    IPC分类号: A61N5/10 G21K5/04 A61N5/01

    摘要: The invention comprises a method for installing a proton based cancer therapy system in a hospital related brownfield building, comprising the steps of: (1) transporting gantry system elements to a basement of the brownfield, the gantry system comprising: a rotatable gantry support; a gantry counterweight; a rotatable gantry arm, and a main bearing, comprising: a diameter of at least ten feet, a first circular segment, comprising a first arc-to-chord section, a second circular segment, comprising a second arc-to-chord section, and an intermediate section; (2) transporting through a pre-existing elevator shaft in the hospital related brownfield building the main bearing in a disassembled form; and (3) after the step of transporting through the pre-existing elevator shaft, assembling the gantry system on the ground floor, the step of assembling comprising attaching the first circular segment of the main bearing to the second circular segment of the main bearing using the intermediate section.

    Scintillation array apparatus and method of use thereof

    公开(公告)号:US10279198B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-07

    申请号:US15868966

    申请日:2018-01-11

    摘要: A scintillation material is longitudinally packaged in a circumferentially surrounding sheath, where the sheath has a lower index of refraction than the scintillation material, to form a scintillation optic or scintillation fiber optic. The scintillation material yields secondary photons upon passage of a charged particle beam, such as a positively charged residual particle beam having transmitted through a sample. The internally generated secondary photons within the sheath are guided to a detector element by the difference in index of refraction. Multiple scintillation optics are assembled to form a two-dimensional scintillation array coupled to a two-dimensional detector array, such as for use in determination of state of the residual charged particle beam, determination of an exit point of the particle beam from the sample, path of the treatment beam, and/or tomographic imaging.