Optical Acceleration of Ions and Perspective for Biomedicine
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04/11/2011
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Optical acceleration has been first proposed thirty years ago but only in recent years the progress has been so rapid that applications to biomedicine have been proposed.
The development of fully optical devices for the treatment of tumours using proton beams is likely to be a very long process, since energies, intensities and beam quality presently achievable are far from clinical standards. However radiobiology experiments are already being performed and post-acceleration might allow to develop preclinical studies in a near future. The physical research ranges from the development of new targets, the exploration of new regimes and extensive simulations for parametric scans. Experiments on transport are reported and new linacs suitable for post-acceleration are under investigation.