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Control System for a Particle Accelerator

  • US 20140091734A1
  • Filed: 09/27/2013
  • Published: 04/03/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A particle therapy system comprising:

  • a particle accelerator to output a particle beam, comprising;

    a particle source to provide pulses of ionized plasma to a cavity, each pulse of the particle source having a pulse width corresponding to a duration of operation of the particle source to produce the corresponding pulse, the particle beam being based on the pulses of ionized plasma; and

    a modulator wheel having different thicknesses, each thickness extending across a different circumferential length of the modulator wheel, the modulator wheel being arranged to receive a precursor to the particle beam and configured to create a spread-out Bragg peak for the particle beam;

    one or more first input/output (I/O) modules operable at a first speed, the one or more first I/O modules being configured to send machine instructions to one or more motor controllers, at least one motor controller for controlling the modulator wheel;

    one or more second I/O modules operable at a second speed that is greater than the first speed, at least one of the second I/O modules being configured to send machine instructions to the particle source so that pulse widths of the particle source vary with rotational positions of the modulator wheel.

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