[2401.01557] Compact dose delivery of laser-accelerated high-energy electron beams towards radiotherapy applications Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search Physics > Medical Physics arXiv:2401.01557 (physics) [Submitted on 3 Jan 2024 ( v1 ), last revised 13 Mar 2025 (this version, v2)] Title: Compact dose delivery of laser-accelerated high-energy electron beams towards radiotherapy applications Authors: Bing Zhou , Zhiyuan Guo , Yang Wan , Shuang Liu , Jianfei Hua , Wei Lu View a PDF of the paper titled Compact dose delivery of laser-accelerated high-energy electron beams towards radiotherapy applications, by Bing Zhou and 5 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: The use of very high energy electron (VHEE) beams for radiotherapy has been actively studied for over two decades due to their advantageous dose distribution, deep penetration depth and great potential of ultra-high dose-rate irradiation. Recently, laser-plasma wakefield accelerator (LWFA) has emerged as a promising method for the compact generation of VHEE beams, due to its substantially higher accelerating gradients compared to traditional radio-frequency accelerators. However, how to compactly deliver the LWFA-based VHEE beams of relatively large energy spread and create a maximum dose deeply inside the body remains very challenging. In this article, we present a simple dose delivery scheme utilizing only two dipole magnets for LWFA-based VHEE treatment. By adjusting the magnet strengths, the electron beams can be guided along different angular trajectories towards a precise position as deep as 20 cm within a water phantom, creating a maximum dose over the target region and significantly reducing the entrance dose. Supported by Monte Carlo simulations, such a beam delivery approach is demonstrated to be insensitive to the beam energy spread and meanwhile capable of controlling precisely the dose-peak position in both lateral and longitudinal directions. As such, a uniform dose peak can be generated by the weighted sum of VHEE beams that reach different dose-peak depths. These results demonstrate that LWFA-based VHEE beams can be compactly delivered into a deep-seated tumor region in a controllable manner, thus advancing the development of the VHEE radiotherapy towards the practical clinical applications in the near future. Comments: 14 pages, 5 figures Subjects: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph) ; Applied Physics (physics.app-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2401.01557 [physics.med-ph] (or arXiv:2401.01557v2 [physics.med-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.01557 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Related DOI : https://doi.org/10.1103/xdsm-7xmf Focus to learn more DOI(s) linking to related resources Submission history From: Zhiyuan Guo [ view email ] [v1] Wed, 3 Jan 2024 06:14:39 UTC (543 KB) [v2] Thu, 13 Mar 2025 02:34:03 UTC (538 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Compact dose delivery of laser-accelerated high-energy electron beams towards radiotherapy applications, by Bing Zhou and 5 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: physics.med-ph < prev | next > new | recent | 2024-01 Change to browse by: physics physics.app-ph References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... 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