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             <author>Bundesmann, J.</author>
             <author>Denker, A.</author>
             <author>Heufelder, J.</author>
             <author>Kourkafas, G.</author>
             <author>Mühldorfer, P.</author>
             <author>Weber, A.</author>
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       <titles>
          <title>
             Fast Beam Delivery for Flash Irradiations at the HZB Cyclotron
          </title>
       </titles>
       <publisher>JACoW Publishing</publisher>
       <pub-location>Geneva, Switzerland</pub-location>
		 <isbn>2226-0358</isbn>
		 <isbn>978-3-95450-238-7</isbn>
		 <electronic-resource-num>10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO3BCO07</electronic-resource-num>
		 <language>English</language>
		 <pages>178-182</pages>
       <keywords>
          <keyword>radiation</keyword>
          <keyword>controls</keyword>
          <keyword>experiment</keyword>
          <keyword>proton</keyword>
          <keyword>cyclotron</keyword>
       </keywords>
       <work-type>Contribution to a conference proceedings</work-type>
       <dates>
          <year>2024</year>
          <pub-dates>
             <date>2024-02</date>
          </pub-dates>
       </dates>
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              <url>https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO3BCO07</url>
              <url>https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/mo3bco07.pdf</url>
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       <abstract>
          In the context of radiotherapy, Flash irradiations mean the delivery of high dose rates of more than 40 Gy/s, in a short time of less than one second. The expectation of the radio-oncologists are lesser side effects while maintaining the tumour control when using Flash. Clinically acceptable deviations of the applied dose to the described dose are less than 3\%. Our accelerator control system is well suited for the standard treatment of ocular melanomas with irradiaton times of 30 s to 60 s. However, it is too slow for the short times required in Flash. Thus, a dedicated beam delivery control system has been developed, permitting irradiation times down to 7 ms with a maximal dose variation of less than 3\%. 
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