We are pleased to announce the fourth speaker for our Student Seminar Series, Devin Baillie, who will be presenting a talk titled “New Compact 10 MV S-band Linear Accelerator: 3D Finite-Element Design and Monte Carlo Dose Simulations”.  Come and meet local researchers  in the microwave community and learn about the latest developments in this area.  Free pizza and refreshments will be available.

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Abstract

This work presents the design and optimization a new compact S-band linac waveguide capable of producing a 10 MV x-ray beam, while maintaining the length (27.5 cm) of current 6 MV waveguides. This new design will allow higher x-ray energies to be used in our linac-MRI systems with the same footprint.  The results of finite element RF simulations (COMSOL Multiphysics), finite difference electron simulations (PARMELA) and Monte Carlo dose calculations (EGSnrc) are presented and compared against an existing 10 MV linac, showing excellent agreement.