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AssigneeAdvanced Molecular Imaging Systems, Inc.
InventorsIra Lon Morgan, Floyd Del McDaniel, Pierre Grande, Jerry M. Watson
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A multiple target array for receiving particles from a particle beam generator includes a particle beam transport path having a transport inlet and a transport outlet, the inlet receiving a particle beam from the particle beam generator. A kicker magnet is positioned along the particle beam transport path. The kicker magnet has an ON state and an OFF state and a kicker magnet inlet and a kicker magnet outlet. The array further includes a plurality of target paths, each of said target paths having a target inlet and terminating in a target. One of the target inlets is connected to the transport path adjacent to the kicker magnet outlet, and the particle beam in the transport path entering the kicker magnet inlet passes along the transport path through the kicker magnet outlet when the kicker magnet is in the OFF state, and the beam is directed to the target inlet when the kicker magnet is in the ON state.
An apparatus for producing particle beam pulses at a repetition rate greater than 100 Hz at multiple energy levels comprising a plurality of linear accelerators, each of said plurality of linear accelerators having an accelerator inlet and an accelerator outlet wherein said plurality of linear accelerators are positioned with an accelerator outlet of one linear accelerator connected to an accelerator outlet of a next linear accelerator to create a sequential array, and wherein each of said plurality of linear accelerators are individually pulsed to produce each of said multiple energy levels of said beam pulses, and wherein energy levels of each of the beam pulses vary between each of the beam pulses.
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