Author: Magnoni, S.
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THPHA130 Control and Interlock Systems for the LIGHT Prototype 1683
 
  • R. Moser, M. Cerv, S. Magnoni, H. Pavetits, P. Paz Neira, K. Stachyra
    ADAM SA, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  LIGHT (Linac Image Guided Hadron Tech­nol­ogy) is a par­ti­cle ther­apy sys­tem* de­vel­oped by Ad­vanced On­cother­apy plc. Ac­cel­er­a­tor, con­trol and in­ter­lock sys­tems are de­vel­oped by its sub­sidiary A.​D.​A.​M.​SA, a CERN spin-off. The sys­tem is being de­signed to ac­cel­er­ate pro­tons up to 230 MeV using a mod­u­lar and com­pact 25-me­ter-long lin­ear ac­cel­er­a­tor. It is being de­signed to op­er­ate in pulsed mode where beam prop­er­ties (en­ergy, pulse charge and spot size) can be changed at 200 Hz. A proof-of-con­cept ac­cel­er­a­tor is being as­sem­bled and tested at CERN (Geneva, Switzer­land). Con­trol and in­ter­lock sys­tems are de­vel­oped using an ex­ploratory pro­to­typ­ing ap­proach and COTS hard­ware. Re­quire­ments for the final LIGHT con­trol and in­ter­lock sys­tems are it­er­a­tively clar­i­fied through cre­ation and re­fine­ment of these pro­to­types. We will con­tinue to sup­port the proof-of-con­cept ac­cel­er­a­tor ac­tiv­i­ties while start­ing to de­sign the final LIGHT con­trol and in­ter­lock sys­tems in par­al­lel, build­ing upon the knowl­edge ac­quired with the proof-of-con­cept ac­cel­er­a­tor. The ma­tured final LIGHT con­trol and in­ter­lock sys­tems will grad­u­ally re­place the pro­to­types to au­to­mate pro­ce­dures and test the sys­tem be­fore de­ploy­ment
* The LIGHT Proton Therapy System is still subject to conformity assessment by AVO's Notified Body as well as clearance by the USA-FDA 		 
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