CERN Accelerating science

Applications of accelerators to tumour therapy

Video - : The first lecture is devoted to an historical review of the developments of the teletherapy techniques which make use of hadron beams and are collectively called “hadrontherapy”. The main emphasis is on the use of protons and light ions, but also neutrons, pions and antiprotons are considered. The second lecture reviews the rationale behind the use of carbon ions in the treatment of radioresistant tumours and the results obtained both with proton and carbon ion beams on the 60 000 patients treated worldwide. The numbers of patients who would profit from hadrontherapy are presented together with the current landscape of running and planned hospital based centres. The main technical challenges set by this therapeutic modality are discussed in the third lecture together with the approaches either adopted or suggested to face them. The challenges are the treatment of moving organs, the development of new tools for Quality Assurance, the design of rotating gantries for carbon ions. The last discussed issue concerns the conception and realization of novel accelerators, better adapted to hadrontherapy than cyclotrons and synchrotrons.
Date: 2008
Language: eng

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Series: CERN Academic Training Lecture Regular Lecture Programme

CERN, Geneva, 14, 15, 17 Jan 2008
The video was digitized from its original recording as part of the CERN Digital Memory project
The video was reviewed and enriched with additional information.
Title: CERN Academic Training Lectures : Applications of Accelerators to Tumour Therapy
Type: Conference Speech
Keywords: ,Orthovoltage,Megavoltage,Gamma,Cobalt bombs,Cobalt gamma rays,Radiation,Oncologists,Accelerators,Electron,Medicine,Image guided radiotherapy,Teletherapy,Synchrotrons,Carbon Ions,X rays,Proton Accelerators,Magnets,Hadron beam,Tumours,Cancer therapy,GSI Model,TPS,Proton Therapy,X-ray therapy,PSI,Radioresistant tumours
category: Portraits of science
Date: 2008-01-15
Filmed people: Amaldi, Ugo
Description (eng): Historical review of the developments of the teletherapy techniques which make use of hadron beams and are collectively called “hadrontherapy”. The main emphasis is on the use of protons and light ions, but also neutrons, pions and antiprotons are considered
Internal comment: Audio in left ear very clear whereas audio in right ear has an echo and not clear at all, also some background feetback, Ends halfway through a sentence

Physical medium: Source is DVD video



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