Advanced Oncotherapy (AIM: AVO), the developer of next-generation proton therapy systems for cancer treatment, has told DirectorsTalk that the Company has integrated the proton source and Radio Frequency Quadruple (RFQ), following a successful testing and calibration programme at ADAM, in Geneva.
This work has demonstrated there is a predicted acceleration of the proton beam through this very sophisticated structure, the RFQ, and that the measurements matched those expected from computer simulations. The completion of this key milestone is a significant indicator of the continued successful technical development of the Company’s LIGHT proton system.
Advanced Oncotherapy’s Professor Steve Myers, Executive Chairman of ADAM and previously Director of Accelerators and Technology at CERN and Head of CERN Medical Applications, stressed the significance of designing and building an RFQ with notably higher frequency and, hence, shorter wavelength and smaller dimensions than current comparable linear accelerators.
In the video recently made available on the Company’s website, Paul Collier, Head of Beams Department at CERN, spoke about the unique features of AVO’s LIGHT system’s RFQ, which has been designed and built by CERN:
“This high frequency RFQ is the most beautiful piece of equipment I have been involved in manufacturing. This is a very important piece of technology transfer from CERN to the outside world. We were challenged to design and build the world’s highest frequency and highest power RFQ.”
