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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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HICAT - The German Hospital-Based Light Ion Cancer Therapy Project
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- H. Eickhoff, T. Haberer, B. Schlitt, U. Weinrich
GSI, Darmstadt
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At the University Clinics at Heidelberg /Germany the realization of a cancer Therapy facility using light and medium ions (from protons up to oxygen) has started. This facility will be capable to treat about 1000 patients per year by means of the 'intensity controlled rasterscan technique', that has been already successfully applied to about 200 patients since 1998 at the GSI therapy pilot project. The presentation will give an overview of the facility layout and especially the accelerator- and beam transport systems, capable to provide 3 treatment places with light ions between 50 and 430 MeV/u. Two treatment places are located after horizontal beam lines and one after an isocentric gantry. A further horizontal beam line for research and development activities is foreseen. Besides the technical description and the status and schedule for the project realization organizational aspects of this project will be discussed with the project leadership at the University Clinics, the strong technical assistance of GSI and the role of industrial partners.
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