Accelerator and detector physics at the Bern medical cyclotron and its beam transport line

Martin Auger; Saverio Braccini; Antonio Ereditato; Marcel Häberli; Elena Kirillova; Konrad P. Nesteruk; Paola Scampoli

doi:10.1515/nuka-2016-0009

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Accelerator and detector physics at the Bern medical cyclotron and its beam transport line

Nukleonika

Volume 61 (2016): Issue 1 (March 2016)

By: Martin Auger, Saverio Braccini, Antonio Ereditato, Marcel Häberli, Elena Kirillova, Konrad P. Nesteruk and Paola Scampoli

Open Access

|Mar 2016

Abstract

The cyclotron laboratory for radioisotope production and multi-disciplinary research at the Bern University Hospital (Inselspital) is based on an 18-MeV proton accelerator, equipped with a specifically conceived 6-m long external beam line, ending in a separate bunker. This facility allows performing daily positron emission tomography (PET) radioisotope production and research activities running in parallel. Some of the latest developments on accelerator and detector physics are reported. They encompass novel detectors for beam monitoring and studies of low current beams.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nuka-2016-0009 | Journal eISSN: 1508-5791 | Journal ISSN: 0029-5922

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Language: English

Page range: 11 - 14

Submitted on: Sep 1, 2014

Accepted on: Jul 31, 2015

Published on: Mar 17, 2016

Published by: Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

Keywords:

beam monitoring,

medical cyclotrons,

particle accelerators,

particle detectors

Related subjects:

Chemistry,

Nuclear chemistry,

Physics,

Astronomy and astrophysics,

Physics, other

© 2016 Martin Auger, Saverio Braccini, Antonio Ereditato, Marcel Häberli, Elena Kirillova, Konrad P. Nesteruk, Paola Scampoli, published by Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology
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Volume 61 (2016): Issue 1 (March 2016)