发明名称 |
Fan beam modulator for ion beams providing continuous intensity modulation |
摘要 |
An intensity modulator for controlling the intensity of ions, such as protons, controllably block a portion of sub-areas of an area beam to control the average intensity within that sub-area. A fan beam is then created by a focusing process that reforms the area beam while blurring intensity variations in each sub-area to a corresponding beamlet in the fan beam of uniform intensity. |
申请公布号 |
US9006677(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2015.04.14 |
申请号 |
US200812374778 |
申请日期 |
2008.02.27 |
申请人 |
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation |
发明人 |
Al-Sadah Jihad H.;Mackie Thomas R. |
分类号 |
G21K5/04;A61N5/10;G21K1/04;G21K1/10 |
主分类号 |
G21K5/04 |
代理机构 |
Boyle Fredrickson, S.C. |
代理人 |
Boyle Fredrickson, S.C. |
主权项 |
1. A method of modulating ions comprising:
(a) generating an area beam of ions directed along an axis and having a longitudinal and latitudinal extent in cross-section and divided into latitudinally adjacent beamlets of ions; (b) occluding the area beam with a set of latitudinally arrayed ion-blocking shutters each having a latitudinal width substantially equal to a latitudinal width of a beamlet, the ion-blocking shutters controllably extended to different longitudinal distances at the cross-section according to a desired intensity of a beamlet of ions to block only a controllable portion of the longitudinal extent of the beamlet and to pass without blocking a remaining portion of the beamlet so that the intensity of the beamlet is substantially nonuniform in a longitudinal direction, some of the different longitudinal distances at the cross-section being less than a length of the longitudinal extent of the area beam; wherein an average intensity of the beamlet is defined by a portion of the beamlet occluded by a given shutter; and (c) refocussing the occluded area beam with a lens system to collapsing the area beam and beamlets in the longitudinal direction to form a fan beam directable toward a patient for radiation therapy to provide a substantially uniform longitudinal intensity in each collapsed beamlet. |
地址 |
Madison WI US |