Subsystem for control of isotope production with linear electron accelerator

Abstract

One of advanced ways of isotope production for medicine is using of bremsstrahlung of the electron accelerator [1]. Therewith, this technology requires development of special target units, that can be operated under high radiation energy flow (up to 10 kW and more) and absorbed doze up to 10¹⁰ Gy. The conditions of high efficiency of the nuclide production and an isotope purity of them define requirements to the control and diagnostic systems. In this report the high-current LINAC subsystem for diagnostic and monitoring the basic technological parameters of isotope production (energy flux of bremsstrahlung photons and absorbed doze in the target, target activity, temperature and consumption of water cooling the converter and target) is described. The parallel printer port (LPT) of the personal computer is proposed to use as an interface with the measurement channels.