Medical Linear Accelerators Developed in Iran

Date: 16 March 2019 - 21:30

News ID: ۶۴۳۰۹

TEHRAN (IFP) - An Iranian knowledge-based company has developed a linear medical accelerator to expedite the treatment of cancer patients in Iran.
So far, only three countries in the world had the technology to produce this device, and now Iran has joined the club.
The device is used to accelerate and improve the treatment of patients with cancerous tumors. Now the Iranian company Behyaar Sanaat Sepahan has made this technology indigenous by producing the device.
A linear particle accelerator (often shortened to Linac) is a type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged subatomic particles or ions to a high speed by subjecting them to a series of oscillating electric potentials along a linear beam-line.
Linacs have many applications: they generate X-rays and high energy electrons for medicinal purposes in radiation therapy, serve as particle injectors for higher-energy accelerators, and are used directly to achieve the highest kinetic energy for light particles (electrons and positrons) for particle physics.
This device, which is located in a room and accelerates particles such as electrons at very high speeds with the help of electromagnetic waves is widely used for the external radiotherapy of cancer patients. It rotates 360 degrees around the patient and is considered as the most practical method in the treatment of cancers.
The method of these devices is that the electron particles are accelerated by the radio waves within the vacuum chamber up to a few mega electron volts in a direct direction. Through direct emissions of low, medium and high electron beams they can treat surface tumors, such as skin cancer.