EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS IN MEDICAL APPLICATIONS @ CERN – SHORT TALKS

Wednesday 6 Oct 2021, 14:00 → 15:25 Europe/Zurich

30/7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium (CERN)

Discover how technological advances for high-energy physics have become essential tools for modern medicine. 

This series of short talks is given by Early-Career Researchers working on projects related to diverse medical applications that arise from technology developed at CERN and in high-energy physics.

In this seminar 3 ECRs working on the NIMMS project will share their work.

The Next Ion Medical Machine Study (NIMMS) project outlines an umbrella R&D programme for the development of critical accelerator technologies related to ion therapy; the programme builds on existing activities and on core CERN competences.  

 

This seminar will take place on zoom:

https://cern.zoom.us/j/66524815946?pwd=K2twc3lSdDVRRlVSYzZlUSswSGNwZz09

Passcode: NIMMS

There are very limited seats available in the room, please contact us if you'd like to attend.

 

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14:00 → 14:10 Introduction

Speaker: Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)

NIMMS_ECR_10_21.pptx

Recording

14:10 → 14:25 Design of a ‘bent linac’ for carbon ion therapy

High-frequency linear accelerators are very suitable for carbon ion therapy, thanks to the reduced operational costs and the high beam quality with respect to synchrotrons, which are presently the only available technology for this application.
The ‘bent linac’, based on the latest accelerators technologies developed at CERN, introduces an innovative design tailored to better fit the accelerator footprint into existing hospital facilities and, at the same time, to provide a high quality, stable beam in the full range of operational energies.

Speaker: Vittorio Bencini (TERA Foundation (IT))

ecrs_slides.pdf

ecrs_slides.pptx

Recording

14:25 → 14:35 questions

14:35 → 14:50 How to design extraction from the NIMMS synchrotron

Abstract: The extraction of heavy ions for hadron therapy is crucial to provide a good quality beam which meets medical requirements. The design choices of slow extraction are explained in this talk, and extraction simulations results from a normal-conducting synchrotron are compared to results from existing hadron therapy accelerators.

Speaker: Rebecca Taylor (Imperial College London)

Recording

RTaylor_KT_NIMMS_Seminar_Animated

RTaylor_KT_NIMMS_Seminar_Static.pdf

RTaylor_KT_NIMMS_Seminar_Animations PIMMS_Steinbach_pyNAFF_Hardt_dPT_Shorter_1.gif PIMMS_Steinbach_pyNAFF_RFKO_quicker.gif

14:50 → 15:00 questions

15:00 → 15:15 Beam optics studies for GaToroid

Abstract:
GaToroid is a novel concept of a beam delivery system for hadron therapy. It comprises toroidal magnets to bend and focus the beam onto the patient location from a discrete number of directions. As GaToroid operates in a steady-state and consists of superconducting magnets, it can significantly reduce the complexity, cost, weight, and footprint of charged particle therapy systems.

Recent progress on the beam dynamics studies for GaToroid is presented. The incoming angles, and hence the reference trajectories for beams of various energies, are automatically determined. Subsequently, 3D particle tracking studies are performed to understand the beam optics to the first order. The linear transport matrix coefficients offer insights into the beam behaviour in the complex system and point towards the design optimization of the magnetic coils. Ultimately, some considerations on the upstream beamline elements are shown.

Speaker: Ewa Oponowicz (CERN)

20211008_GaToroid_optics_KTsem_EO.pdf

20211008_GaToroid_optics_KTsem_EO.pptx

Recording

15:15 → 15:25 questions