Status of Commissioning of Gantry 3 at the PSI PROSCAN Facility

Koschik, Alexander; Duppich, Juergen; Eichin, Michael; Fernandez Carmona, Pablo; Gerbershagen, Alexander; Lomax, Antony; Meer, David; Safai, Sairos; Schippers, Jacobus; Weber, Damien Charles

doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-THPVA125

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TY - CONF
AU - Koschik, A.
AU - Duppich, J.P.
AU - Eichin, M.
AU - Fernandez Carmona, P.
AU - Gerbershagen, A.
AU - Lomax, A.L.
AU - Meer, D.
AU - Safai, S.
AU - Schippers, J.M.
AU - Weber, D.C.
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
ED - Arduini, Gianluigi
ED - Pranke, Juliana
ED - Seidel, Mike
ED - Lindroos, Mats
TI - Status of Commissioning of Gantry 3 at the PSI PROSCAN Facility
J2 - Proc. of IPAC2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14â19 May, 2017
C1 - Copenhagen, Denmark
T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference
T3 - 8
LA - english
AB - Paul Scherrer Institute currently extends its PROSCAN facility with a third gantry treatment room - Gantry 3, which is realized in a research collaboration with Varian Medical Systems. The main research goals at the PROSCAN facility include further development of precise spot scanning and optimized beam delivery with low dead-time for treatment of moving targets. Consequently Gantry 3 is designed to feature advanced pencil beam scanning technology with a large scan field size of 30x40cm, integrated cone beam CT functionality and will in the future allow fast energy layer switching. The main challenge in realizing Gantry 3 is the integration of the Varian Gantry into the existing PROSCAN control system environment, allowing seamless beam operation. Installation of the additional treatment room has started in summer 2015 followed by the integration and technical commissioning phases of the Gantry in 2016, all during full operation of the existing treatment areas at our facility. We report about the special challenges and achieved performance results during commissioning of the Varian Gantry system in combination with the PSI PROSCAN facility.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 4744
EP - 4746
KW - coupling
KW - operation
KW - interface
KW - controls
KW - proton
DA - 2017/05
PY - 2017
SN - 978-3-95450-182-3
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-THPVA125
UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2017/papers/thpva125.pdf
ER -