US 12,144,100 B2
3D high speed RF beam scanner for hadron therapy
Sami G. Tantawi, Stanford, CA (US); Emilio Nanni, Redwood City, CA (US); Zenghai Li, Stanford, CA (US); and Cecile Limborg-Deprey, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US)
Filed by The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/006,742.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/894,491, filed on Aug. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0060358 A1, Mar. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. H05H 7/00 (2006.01); A61N 5/10 (2006.01); H05H 7/02 (2006.01); H05H 7/04 (2006.01)
CPC H05H 7/001 (2013.01) [A61N 5/1043 (2013.01); A61N 5/1077 (2013.01); H05H 7/02 (2013.01); H05H 7/04 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1087 (2013.01); H05H 2007/025 (2013.01); H05H 2007/045 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A treatment system that directs a hadron therapy beam to a target, the system comprising:
a hadron source and accelerator providing the hadron beam at a desired energy level;
an RF energy modulator disposed along a beamline of the hadron beam;
an RF deflector disposed along the beamline, the RF deflector configured to scan the hadron beam transversally; and
a magnetic quadrupole disposed along the beamline.