Author: Farinon, F.
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MOPAB181 Non-Delivery Time Reduction at MedAustron 613
 
  • L. Adler, S. Danzinger, F. Farinon, F. Feichtinger, G. Guidoboni, N. Kahn, C. Kurfürst, D.A. Prokopovich, A. Wastl
    EBG MedAustron, Wr. Neustadt, Austria
  • L.C. Penescu
    Abstract Landscapes, Montpellier, France
 
  Funding: Funding by the NÖ WIRTSCHAFTS- UND TOURISMUSFONDS under grant number WST3-F-5033232/001-2020.
MedAustron is a cancer treatment center in Austria providing proton and carbon ion beams to three clinical and one non-clinical research beam lines. The slow extraction of particles from the synchrotron follows a third order resonance extraction scheme. Currently, for every change of extraction energy a new spill needs to be generated. Besides the beam-on time of the particle delivery, every spill is also comprised of non-delivery time components e.g. the multiturn injection, acceleration or magnet conditioning. For small tumor target volumes, this non-delivery time is the major contribution to the overall treatment time. A dedicated performance improvement project (supported with a grant from the state of lower Austria) was executed with the goal to reduce these non-delivery times without affecting important clinical beam parameters such as the beam size or penetration depth. The implemented reduction of the non-delivery time >50% could be achieved, resulting in beam-on time reductions for reference treatment plans between 25% (largest proton PTV) and 58% (smallest carbon PTV). Results of commissioning efforts, technical details and the achieved optimizations will be presented.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-MOPAB181  
About • paper received ※ 14 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 28 May 2021       issue date ※ 25 August 2021  
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