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Optics of Extraction Lines at CNAO

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E. Bressi, L. Falbo, C. Priano, M. Pullia
CNAO Foundation, Milan, Italy
C. Biscari
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy

The CNAO (National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy), is the first Italian center for deep hadrontherapy with proton and carbon ion beams, treating patients since fall 2011. The beam is delivered to the patient through a high energy transfer line (HEBT). The line is equipped with a horizontal switching dipole that carries the beam in three treatment rooms and a vertical switching dipole that allows a vertical delivery of the beam in the central treatment room. The CNAO HEBT commissioning has been carried out using proton and Carbon beams in the full range of energies: 60 to 250 MeV/u for protons, 120 to 400 MeV/u for Carbon ions. Optimization of the beam lines setup has been carried out for few energies, applying beam magnetic rigidity scaling for the full range in steps of the order of 1 MeV. The scaling has proven to be satisfactory for most elements, and only minor adjustments in the initial part of the line were needed to fulfill tolerances in all the range. Repeatability of magnetic settings is supported by measurements along the lines. Finally the results in terms of beam dimensions, beam transmission and beam position at the patient position are presented.

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Operation and Patient Treatments at CNAO Facility

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E. Bressi
CNAO Foundation, Milan, Italy

The CNAO (National Centre for Oncological Hadrontherapy) has been realized in Pavia. It is a clinical facility created and financed by the Italian Ministry of Health and conceived to supply hadrontherapy treatments to patients recruited all over the Country. A qualified network of clinical and research Institutes, the CNAO Collaboration, has been created to build and to run the centre. Three treatment rooms (three horizontal and one vertical) are installed. Beams of protons with kinetic energies up to 250 MeV and beams of carbon ions with maximum kinetic energy of 400 MeV/u are transported and delivered by active scanning systems. CNAO commissioning concerning the high technology started in 2009. First patient was treated with Proton beam in September 2011, the 22nd. This presentation presents the features of the system, together with the results of the first treatments.

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Paper	Title	Page
TUPPC012	Optics of Extraction Lines at CNAO	1179
	E. Bressi, L. Falbo, C. Priano, M. Pullia CNAO Foundation, Milan, Italy C. Biscari INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
	The CNAO (National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy), is the first Italian center for deep hadrontherapy with proton and carbon ion beams, treating patients since fall 2011. The beam is delivered to the patient through a high energy transfer line (HEBT). The line is equipped with a horizontal switching dipole that carries the beam in three treatment rooms and a vertical switching dipole that allows a vertical delivery of the beam in the central treatment room. The CNAO HEBT commissioning has been carried out using proton and Carbon beams in the full range of energies: 60 to 250 MeV/u for protons, 120 to 400 MeV/u for Carbon ions. Optimization of the beam lines setup has been carried out for few energies, applying beam magnetic rigidity scaling for the full range in steps of the order of 1 MeV. The scaling has proven to be satisfactory for most elements, and only minor adjustments in the initial part of the line were needed to fulfill tolerances in all the range. Repeatability of magnetic settings is supported by measurements along the lines. Finally the results in terms of beam dimensions, beam transmission and beam position at the patient position are presented.

THXA02	Operation and Patient Treatments at CNAO Facility	3180
	E. Bressi CNAO Foundation, Milan, Italy
	The CNAO (National Centre for Oncological Hadrontherapy) has been realized in Pavia. It is a clinical facility created and financed by the Italian Ministry of Health and conceived to supply hadrontherapy treatments to patients recruited all over the Country. A qualified network of clinical and research Institutes, the CNAO Collaboration, has been created to build and to run the centre. Three treatment rooms (three horizontal and one vertical) are installed. Beams of protons with kinetic energies up to 250 MeV and beams of carbon ions with maximum kinetic energy of 400 MeV/u are transported and delivered by active scanning systems. CNAO commissioning concerning the high technology started in 2009. First patient was treated with Proton beam in September 2011, the 22nd. This presentation presents the features of the system, together with the results of the first treatments.
	Slides THXA02 [14.843 MB]