• M. Benedikt, J. Gutleber, M. Palm, W. Pirkl
  CERN, Geneva
• U. Dorda, A. Fabich
  EBG MedAustron, Wr. Neustadt

MedAus­tron is a syn­chrotron based ac­cel­er­a­tor fa­cil­i­ty for can­cer treat­ment in Aus­tria cur­rent­ly in the de­vel­op­ment phase. The de­sign is based on the PIMMS study* and CNAO** syn­chrotron. In ad­di­tion to the clin­i­cal ap­pli­ca­tion, the ac­cel­er­a­tor will also pro­vide beams for non­clin­i­cal re­search in the fields of med­i­cal ra­di­a­tion physics, ra­di­a­tion bi­ol­o­gy and ex­per­i­men­tal physics with an ex­tend­ed pro­ton en­er­gy range be­yond med­i­cal re­quire­ments to 800 MeV. The dif­fer­ences to oth­ers med­i­cal ac­cel­er­a­tor-based fa­cil­i­ties will be elab­o­rat­ed, specif­i­cal­ly the used source tech­nolo­gies and con­fig­u­ra­tion (start­ing up with pro­tons (p) and car­bon ions (C⁶⁺) al­low­ing a later up­grade to ion species up to neon) and the on­line ver­i­fi­ca­tion of all rel­e­vant beam pa­ram­e­ters. The cur­rent pro­ject sta­tus is pre­sent­ed.

* PIMMS Proton-ion medical machine study, Bryant, Philip J (ed.) et al., CERN, 2000.
** CNAO, www.cnao.it