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Research & Development

The team of NRT experts and specialists has always pursued innovation in the oncological radiotherapy field


 

 

 

The assets, international patents and production technologies arise from a team of experts who have worked for many years in  cooperation with ENEA (Italian agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development) to design and manufacture  mobile linear electron accelerators.

 






The current lines of research and development in oncological radiotherapy are:


  • new generation mobile linear electron accelerators
  • linear proton accelerators
  • high dose rate dosimetry
  • industrial radiography


References

Acceleration tests on the first module of THE ACLIP LINAC

V. G. Vaccaro, M. R. Masullo (Univ. di Napoli Federico II and INFN-Napoli,Napoli, Italy), C. De Martinis, (Univ. di Milano and INFN-Milano, Italy), D. Giove, L. Gini (INFN-Milano, Milano, Italy),A. Rainò, V. Variale (Univ. di Bari and INFN-Bari,Bari, Italy), L. Calabretta, A. Rovelli (INFN-LNS, Catania, Italy), S. Barone (NRT, Aprilia, Italy)

ACLIP is a 3 GHz proton SCL linac designed as a booster for a 30 MeV commercial cyclotron. The whole accelerator is a 5 module structure coupled together. The final energy is 62 MeV well suitable for the therapy of ocular tumors or for further acceleration (up to 230 MeV) by a second linac in order to treat deep-seated tumors. The possibility of using magnetrons as the source of RF power, to reduce the overall cost of the machine, and the tile design (covered by a patent), named Back-to-Back Accelerating Cavity (BBAC), to efficiently accelerate protons starting from a low energy are two of the more relevant features of this project. The first module (able to accelerate proton from 30 to 35 MeV) has been full power RF tested in December 2008, showing that the design accelerating field could be easily reached. Then this module, along with all elements of the RF power setup, has been transferred to INFN-LNS in Catania at the end of April 2010 to carry out beam acceleration tests using a 30 MeV proton beam from the Superconducting Cyclotron. In this paper we will review the main features of the linac and discuss the results of the acceleration measurements carried out on this prototype.