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AKBP: Arbeitskreis Beschleunigerphysik

AKBP 10: Beam and Accelerator Control

AKBP 10.9: Vortrag

Mittwoch, 11. März 2015, 18:45–19:00, BZ.08.06 (HS 1)

The Heidelberg Heavy Ion Beam Gantry Experience — •Michael Galonska, Stefan Scheloske, Rainer Cee, Klaus Höppner, Jörg Mosthaf, Andreas Peters, and Thomas Haberer — Heidelberger Ionenstrahl-Therapiezentrum, Heidelberg, Germany

The Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Facility (HIT) is the first dedicated proton and carbon cancer therapy facility in Europe. It uses full 3D intensity controlled raster scanning dose delivery method of pencil beams with ion beams of 48 - 430 MeV/u provided by a linac-synchrotron-system. The patient treatment at the first 360° raster scanning heavy ion gantry beam line at HIT started in October 2012 using carbon ion and proton beams, but with a restriction on a few selected angles in the initial phase. Since then the variety of available gantry angles for patient treatment has been extended for the carbon and proton beams. The commissioning steps have been accomplished in parallel to clinical operation. This contribution outlines some activities including ion optical modifications which minimize the coupling of the transversal beam properties under gantry rotation, and some control system aspects such as the sophisticated device control data handling routines. As the key challenge these modifications have been implemented while preserving the validated accelerator settings and the clinically approved beam quality.