Investigation of the Therapeutic Electron Beams Formation Efficiency by Metal Collimators and Products Manufactured by Rapid Prototyping Technique

In this paper, a new method for the formation of complex therapeutic electron fields with taking the anatomical features of patients into account has been proposed. This method is based on the use of plastic electron beam collimators that are manufactured by rapid prototyping technique. The analysis...

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Published inPhysics of particles and nuclei letters Vol. 15; no. 7; pp. 963 - 966
Main Authors Miloichikova, I. A., Gavrikov, B. M., Krasnykh, A. A., Cherepennikov, Yu. M., Shevchenko, M. V., Stuchebrov, S. G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.12.2018
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Collimation
Collimators
Control and Diagnostic Systems
Efficiency
Electron beams
Particle and Nuclear Physics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Rapid prototyping
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Summary:In this paper, a new method for the formation of complex therapeutic electron fields with taking the anatomical features of patients into account has been proposed. This method is based on the use of plastic electron beam collimators that are manufactured by rapid prototyping technique. The analysis of the plastic collimators application efficiency for the formation of an electron field using an ONCOR Impression Plus medical accelerator (Siemens) in a real clinical case has been carried out. The results prove the high efficiency of the proposed method for the formation of clinical electron beams.
ISSN:1547-4771
1531-8567
DOI:10.1134/S1547477118070531