IPAC2014 - List of Authors (Feldmeier, E.)

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WEPRO062	Reacceleration of Ion Beams for Particle Therapy	2091
	C. Schömers, R. Cee, E. Feldmeier, M. Galonska, Th. Haberer, A. Peters, S. Scheloske HIT, Heidelberg, Germany
	At the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Centre (HIT) cancer patients are treated using the raster-scanning method. A synchrotron provides pencil beams in therapy quality for 255 energy steps per ion type allowing to vary the penetration depth and thus to irradiate tumors slice-by-slice. So far, changing the beam energy necessitates a new synchrotron cycle, including all phases without beam extraction. As the no. of ions that can be accelerated in the synchrotron usually exceeds the required no. of ions for one energy slice, treatment time could be significantly reduced by reaccelerating or decelerating the remaining ions to the next energy level. By alternating acceleration and extraction phases several slices could be irradiated with only short interruptions. Therefore the reacceleration of a transversally blown up beam – due to RF-knockout extraction – must be investigated, beam losses have to be minimized. To estimate the benefit of this operation mode, treatment time has been simulated and compared to the time achieved in the past. A reduction of up to 65% is possible and more patients can be treated! Simulations and first tests of a reaccelerated and extracted beam are presented.
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THPME120	An Intensity Measurement Method based on Inorganic Scintillators and Optoelectronic Sensors	3518
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	A. Kechler, E. Feldmeier, Th. Haberer, A. Peters, C. Schömers HIT, Heidelberg, Germany
	The Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center (HIT) is a heavy ion accelerator facility located at the Heidelberg university hospital and intended for cancer treatment with heavy ions and protons. Currently ionization chambers with highly sensitive charge amplifiers are regularly used for intensity measurements of the high-energy ion beams. A new intensity measuring method will be presented based on the combination of fluorescent light from inorganic scintillators and an optoelectronic sensor with adjacent electronics as an alternative to the ionization chambers. A special measurement set-up with a large-area Si PIN-diode and adapted optics was investigated with respect to signal dynamics, resolution and linearity. The experimental results with proton and carbon beams will be presented in detail. Worth mentioning is a variation in sensitivity relating to the position of the beam spot, which could be reduced to some percent only.
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Reacceleration of Ion Beams for Particle Therapy

2091

C. Schömers, R. Cee, E. Feldmeier, M. Galonska, Th. Haberer, A. Peters, S. Scheloske
HIT, Heidelberg, Germany

At the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Centre (HIT) cancer patients are treated using the raster-scanning method. A synchrotron provides pencil beams in therapy quality for 255 energy steps per ion type allowing to vary the penetration depth and thus to irradiate tumors slice-by-slice. So far, changing the beam energy necessitates a new synchrotron cycle, including all phases without beam extraction. As the no. of ions that can be accelerated in the synchrotron usually exceeds the required no. of ions for one energy slice, treatment time could be significantly reduced by reaccelerating or decelerating the remaining ions to the next energy level. By alternating acceleration and extraction phases several slices could be irradiated with only short interruptions. Therefore the reacceleration of a transversally blown up beam – due to RF-knockout extraction – must be investigated, beam losses have to be minimized. To estimate the benefit of this operation mode, treatment time has been simulated and compared to the time achieved in the past. A reduction of up to 65% is possible and more patients can be treated! Simulations and first tests of a reaccelerated and extracted beam are presented.

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THPME120

An Intensity Measurement Method based on Inorganic Scintillators and Optoelectronic Sensors

3518

SUSPSNE069

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A. Kechler, E. Feldmeier, Th. Haberer, A. Peters, C. Schömers
HIT, Heidelberg, Germany

The Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center (HIT) is a heavy ion accelerator facility located at the Heidelberg university hospital and intended for cancer treatment with heavy ions and protons. Currently ionization chambers with highly sensitive charge amplifiers are regularly used for intensity measurements of the high-energy ion beams. A new intensity measuring method will be presented based on the combination of fluorescent light from inorganic scintillators and an optoelectronic sensor with adjacent electronics as an alternative to the ionization chambers. A special measurement set-up with a large-area Si PIN-diode and adapted optics was investigated with respect to signal dynamics, resolution and linearity. The experimental results with proton and carbon beams will be presented in detail. Worth mentioning is a variation in sensitivity relating to the position of the beam spot, which could be reduced to some percent only.

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