Author: Dorda, U.
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THPPR046 Status of the MedAustron Ion Beam Therapy Centre 4077
 
  • U. Dorda
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • M. Benedikt, A. Fabich, F. Osmic
    EBG MedAustron, Wr. Neustadt, Austria
 
  MedAustron is a synchrotron based light-ion beam therapy centre for cancer treatment as well as for clinical and non-clinical research currently in its construction phase. The accelerator design is based on the CERN-PIMMS study and its technical implementation by CNAO. This paper presents a status overview over the whole project detailing the achieved progress of the building construction & technical infrastructure installation in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, as well as of the accelerator development, performed at CERN and partially at PSI. The design and procurement status and future planning of the various accelerator components is elaborated.  
 
THPPR052 The MedAustron Proton Gantry 4091
 
  • A. Koschik
    PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
  • U. Dorda, A. Koschik
    EBG MedAustron, Wr. Neustadt, Austria
  • D. Meer, E.S. Pedroni
    Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
 
  The MedAustron project realizes a synchrotron based accelerator facility in Austria for cancer treatment with protons and carbon ions, currently in the construction phase. In order to allow full patient treatment flexibility, one of the four treatment rooms will be equipped with a proton gantry. While its hardware design is a copy of the PSI Gantry 2, different constraints on the beam optics must be accounted for as MedAustron uses a synchrotron as particle accelerator and a rotator to match the beam into the rotated frame, as compared to the cyclotron of the PSI PROSCAN facility. This paper presents the current status of the hardware design and procurement and a review of the design characteristics of the PSI Gantry 2 for the MedAustron case. In particular the stability of the beam parameters during beam scanning over the treatment scan area is investigated in detail. To achieve utmost parallel active scanning performance, the magnet design parameters (edge angles, corrector quadrupole, tapered dipole) have been optimized for PSI Gantry 2. Equivalent studies are undertaken for the MedAustron requirements and constraints in this paper.