Beam operation in the Glocker Building
The facility - which will be unique worldwide when it is completed - will receive three accelerators: two medical electron accelerators of the construction type Elekta Precise and an 11 m long linear accelerator by the ACCEL company from Bergisch-Gladbach for basic dosimetric research. Altogether, the facility can produce photon and electron radiation in the energy range from 0.5 MeV to 50 MeV. This enables standards of the unit Gray to be made available for the water-absorbed dose measurand for the most varied radiation qualities and radiation conditions.
The main field of application is the dosimetry for radiation therapy. The importance becomes apparent not least from the fact that in Germany alone there are 10 million radiation procedures carried out annually, and the correct dose is one of the crucial factors for the success of the therapy.
The three accelerators will be set up and tested in parallel. The trial operation will end presumably in the first half of 2008 with the formal handing over of all three accelerators to the PTB. Since the beginning of construction, the timeframe and budget (€ 14 m) were adhered to.
Contact:
Dr. Klaus Derikum
6.2 Neubau Elektronenbeschleuniger
Phone: (0531) 592 - 62 09
e-mail: klaus.derikum(at)ptb.de