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The Heavy Ion Gantry of the HICAT-facility
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- U. Weinrich, R. Fuchs
GSI, Darmstadt
- P. Emde
MAN Technologie AG, Mainz
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The Heavy Ion Cancer Therapy Project HICAT at the University Hospital of Heidelberg is under construction. One unique feature of the treatment facility is the first heavy ion gantry in the world. The Gantry will allow the patient treatment with different ion species up to 430 MeV/u with full geometrical flexibility. This functionality has to be maintained for up to 300 000 rotations over the envisaged life cycle of 15 years. GSI has taken the responsibility to coordinate the design and construction of all the different required components. At the time of the conference the design will be finished and the construction started. The contribution will report on challenging construction items like the survey and alignment strategy, safety aspects, flexibility of the ion optics. In order to gain confidence on the principle a test bench with the last part of the gantry was already mounted in a fixed manner at GSI and beam measurements were performed. The results of these tests will also be reported.
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