Principle design of a protontherapy, rapid-cycling, variable energy spiral FFAG

The FFAG method is nowadays seen as a potential candidate for the acceleration of protons and light ions for hadrontherapy. This has motivated the design of a principle protontherapy installation, in the frame of the RACCAM project. This article presents the design Study, a medical spiral scaling FFAG assembly, capable of producing variable energy proton beams, with potentially high repetition and dose delivery rates. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.