Author: Kumbhare, M.S.
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TUPAB405 Design of High Energy Linac for Generation of Isotopes for Medical Applications 2472
 
  • A.P. Deshpande, S.R. Bhat, T.S. Dixit, P.S. Jadhav, A.S. Kottawar, R. Krishnan, M.S. Kumbhare, J. Mishra, C.S. Nainwad, S.R. Name, R. Sandeep Kumar, A. Shaikh, K.A. Thakur, M.M. Vidwans, A. Waingankar
    SAMEER, Mumbai, India
  • A.K. Mishra
    INMAS, New Delhi, India
  • N. Upadhyay
    University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India
 
  Funding: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India.
After suc­cess­ful im­ple­men­ta­tion of 6 and 15 MeV elec­tron lin­ear ac­cel­er­a­tor (linac) tech­nol­ogy for Can­cer Ther­apy in India, we ini­ti­ated the de­vel­op­ment of high en­ergy high cur­rent ac­cel­er­a­tor for the pro­duc­tion of ra­dioiso­topes for di­ag­nos­tic ap­pli­ca­tions. The ac­cel­er­a­tor will be of 30 MeV en­ergy with 350 µA av­er­age cur­rent pro­vided by a grid­ded gun. The linac is a side cou­pled stand­ing wave ac­cel­er­a­tor op­er­at­ing at 2998 MHz fre­quency op­er­at­ing at p/2 mode. The choice of p/2 op­er­at­ing mode is par­tic­u­larly suit­able for this case where the rep­e­ti­tion rate will be around 400 Hz. Kly­stron with 7 MW peak power and 36 kW av­er­age power will be used as the RF source. The mod­u­la­tor will be a solid-state mod­u­la­tor. The con­trol sys­tem is FPGA based setup de­vel­oped in-house at SAMEER. A re­tractable tar­get with tung­sten will be used as a con­verter to gen­er­ate X-rays via bremsstrahlung. The x-rays will then in­ter­act with en­riched 100Mo tar­get to pro­duce 99Mo via (g, n) re­ac­tion. Eluted 99mTc will be used for di­ag­nos­tic ap­pli­ca­tions. The paper lists the chal­lenges and novel schemes de­vel­oped at SAMEER to make a com­pact, rugged, and easy to use sys­tem keep­ing in mind local con­di­tions.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB405  
About • paper received ※ 19 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 23 June 2021       issue date ※ 02 September 2021  
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