Explorative Studies of an Innovative Superconducting Gantry

13th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2022) : Conference Proceedings 2022
Marco Pullia, Marco Donetti, Enrico Felcini, Guglielmo Frisella, Alessio Mereghetti, Alfredo Mirandola, Elena Benedetto, Luca Dassa, Mikko Karppinen, Diego Perini, Davide Tommasini, Maurizio Vretenar, Ernesto De Matteis, Lucio Rossi, Christopher Kurfurst, Mauro Pivi, Markus Stock, Luca Piacentini, Andris Ratkus, Toms Torims, Jānis Vilcāns, Lucia Sabbatini, Alessandro Vannozzi, Stefano Uberti

The Heavy Ion Therapy Research Integration plus (HITRIplus) is a European project that aims to integrate and propel research and technologies related to cancer treatment with heavy ions beams. Among the ambitious goals of the project, a specific work package includes the design of a gantry for carbon ions, based on superconducting magnets. The first milestone to achieve is the choice of the fundamental gantry parameters, namely the beam optics layout, the superconducting magnet technology, and the main user requirements. Starting from a reference 3T design, the collaboration widely explored dozens of possible gantry configurations at 4T, aiming to find the best compromise in terms of footprint, capital cost, and required R&D. We present here a summary of these configurations, underlying the initial correlation between the beam optics, the mechanics, and the main superconducting dipoles design: the bending field (up to 4 T), combined function features (integrated quadrupole), magnet aperture (up to 90 mm), and angular length (30°-45°). The resulting main parameters are then listed, compared, and used to drive the choice of the best gantry layout to be developed in HITRIplus.

Atslēgas vārdi
gantry for medical applications; ion therapy
DOI
10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOMS012
Hipersaite
https://accelconf.web.cern.ch/ipac2022/doi/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOMS012.html

Pullia, M., Donetti, M., Felcini, E., Frisella, G., Mereghetti, A., Mirandola, A., Benedetto, E., Dassa, L., Karppinen, M., Perini, D., Tommasini, D., Vretenar, M., Matteis, E., Rossi, L., Kurfurst, C., Pivi, M., Stock, M., Piacentini, L., Ratkus, A., Torims, T., Vilcāns, J., Sabbatini, L., Vannozzi, A., Uberti, S. Explorative Studies of an Innovative Superconducting Gantry. No: 13th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2022) : Conference Proceedings, Taizeme, Bangkoka, 12.-17. jūnijs, 2022. Geneva: JACoW Publishing, 2022, 2966.-2969. lpp. e-ISBN 978-3-95450-227-1. e-ISSN 2673-5490. Pieejams: doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOMS012

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