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Medical accelerators require arc-free operation. Due to high-field emission, arcing and outgasing can occur in high-power accelerators. Therefore, the accelerator?s inner surfaces have to be conditioned before its use at high gradient levels in Radiation Therapy machine. At Siemens, we have developed a techniqu·101 to automatically condition an accelerator waveguide structure by continually inspecting the accelerator running conditions (arcing and vacuum) and stepping up the pulse repetition frequency (PRF) and RF power until reaching maximum power rating. The program implemented also reads, displays, and archives the data it collects along the full process of conditioning.
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