Beamlines of the biomedical imaging and therapy facility at the Canadian light source—Part 1

✍ Scribed by Tomasz W. Wysokinski; Dean Chapman; Gregg Adams; Michel Renier; Pekka Suortti; William Thomlinson

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 901 KB
• Volume: 582
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2007.08.087

✦ Synopsis

The BioMedical Imaging and Therapy (BMIT) Facility will provide synchrotron-specific imaging and therapy capabilities. This paper describes one of the BMIT beamlines: the bend magnet (BM) beamline 05B1-1. It plays a complementary role to the insertion device (ID) beamline 051D-2 and allows either monochromatic or filtered white beam to be used in the experimental hutch. The monochromatic spectral range will span 8-40 keV, and the beam is more than 200 mm wide in the experimental hutch for imaging studies of small and medium-size animals (up to sheep size). The experimental hutch will have a positioning system that will allow imaging (computed tomography and planar imaging) as well as radiation therapy applications with both filtered white and monochromatic X-ray beams and will handle subjects up to 120 kg. Several different focal plane detectors (cameras) will be available with resolutions ranging from 10 to 150 mm.