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TY - CONF AU - Kurfürst, C. AU - Adler, L. AU - De Franco, A. AU - Farinon, F. AU - Gambino, N. AU - Guidoboni, G. AU - Kowarik, G. AU - Kronberger, M. AU - Myalski, S. AU - Nowak, S. AU - Penescu, L.C. AU - Pivi, M.T.F. AU - Schmitzer, C. AU - Strašík, I. AU - Urschütz, P. AU - Wastl, A. ED - Koscielniak, Shane ED - Satogata, Todd ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Thomson, Jana TI - Status of the MedAustron Beam Commissioning with Protons and Carbon Ions J2 - Proc. of IPAC2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 29-May 4, 2018 C1 - Vancouver, BC, Canada T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 9 LA - english AB - MedAustron is a synchrotron-based Particle Therapy Accelerator located in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, which is delivering beams for medical treatment since end of 2016. The accelerator provides clinical proton beams in the energy range 62-252 MeV and is designed to provide carbon ions in the range 120-400 MeV/n to three ion therapy irradiation rooms IRs, including a room with a proton Gantry. Proton beams of up to 800 MeV will be provided to a fourth room dedicated to research. Presently, proton beams are delivered to the fixed horizontal beam lines of three rooms. Beam commissioning of the vertical beam line of the second IR is being completed and the beam line is in preparation for clinical treatment. Commissioning of the accelerator with carbon ions is advancing and first clinical beams have been sent to the IRs, while the preparation for the Gantry beam line is ongoing. A slow extraction 3rd order resonance method is used to extract particles from the synchrotron between 0.1-10 seconds to favor control of the delivered dose during clinical treatments. The main characteristics of the accelerator and results obtained during the latest commissioning activities are presented. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 665 EP - 668 KW - MMI KW - proton KW - extraction KW - dipole KW - synchrotron DA - 2018/06 PY - 2018 SN - 978-3-95450-184-7 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-TUPAF004 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2018/papers/tupaf004.pdf ER -