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Particle Therapy using Proton and Ion Beams - From Basic Principles to Daily Operations and Future Concepts(3/3)

Name: Particle Therapy using Proton and Ion Beams - From Basic Principles to Daily Operations and Future Concepts(3/3)
Start: 2012-09-13T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2012-09-13T12:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

by Andreas Peter (Head of Accelerator Operations, Heidelberg Ion Beam Theraps Centre (HIT), Germany)

Thursday 13 Sept 2012, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

222/R-001 (CERN)

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Part III: • Daily operations of a particle therapy centre: Experiences from the first five years at HIT in Heidelberg, from commissioning to the treatment of the first 1000 patients so far • Future enhancements for synchrotron-driven particle therapy facilities: Magnetic field control and feedback, dynamic spill shaping and multi-energy operation within one synchrotron cycle • Outlook to new accelerator concepts proposed for particle therapy: FFAGs, laser plasma accelerators, dielectric wall accelerators and others

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Particle Therapy using Proton and Ion Beams - From Basic Principles to Daily Operations and Future Concepts(3/3)

by Andreas Peter (Head of Accelerator Operations, Heidelberg Ion Beam Theraps Centre (HIT), Germany)

222/R-001

CERN