Orateur
Dejan Trbojevic
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
The major problem in a design and building of the
carbon/proton therapy
facilities are the isocentric gantries. The weight of the
transport elements of the
isocentric gantry in the most recent design in Darmstadt,
Germany is 130 tons,
while the whole gantry with support structure; (rotating
part with transport
elements and counter weights) is 630 tons. This represents
the most difficult
challenge of the whole facility. We present a non-scaling
FFAG superconducting
magnet design with an estimated weight of 1.5 tons.
Advantages of such a
system are a smaller weight and ease in operation due to the
fixed fields for all
required ion energies for treatment.
Summary
This represents a great advantage of the non-scaling FFAG concept
with
respect to the other ways of beam transport in the isocentric
carbon/proton
gantry application.
Auteur principal
Dejan Trbojevic
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Co-auteur
Prof.
Eberhard Keil
(CERN)
