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WEBOR01 | The C-80 Cyclotron System. Technical Characteristics, Current Status, Progress and Prospects. | 106 |
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A C-80 cyclotron system is intended to produce proton beams with an energy ranging from 40 up to 80 MeV and current up to 200 mkA. The beams with these parameters will be used for commercial production of a wide spectrum of isotopes for medicine, proton radiation therapy of eye diseases and superficial oncologic diseases as well as for fundamental and applied researches. Manufacturing and installation of the cyclotron equipment and first section of the system for the beam transport to remote targets have been finished. Physical start-up of the cyclotron has been realized. In future, the C-80 cyclotron is supposed to be used as an injector of the C-230 synchrotron, which serves for additional acceleration of the extracted proton beam to energies of the order of 230 MeV. This will allow the Bragg's peak-based treatment procedures to be applied in the proton therapy of oncologic patients. | ||