Superconductivity and other new Developments in Gantry Design for Particle Therapy
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Europe/Zurich
Park Hotel Bad Zurzach
Park Hotel Bad Zurzach
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5330 Bad Zurzach
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Description
Particle therapy has significantly gained importance in treating tumors over the last years. The gantry is the part of the irradiation facility which allows conformal irradiation with different field angles and has similar complexity as the rest of the accelerator. There is ongoing effort to reduce size and complexity of such gantries while maintaining or even increasing treatment quality aiming at more cost-efficient solutions. One of the promising approaches is to use superconducting (SC) magnets for the gantries which could offer new opportunities but also will bring new challenges.
The scope of this workshop is to bring together experts from different fields like magnet engineers, medical physicists as well as representative from industry to discuss and review the current status, the requirement and the technical challenges. The workshop should foster interactions amongst people in various labs, institutions and industry. The meeting will be composed of oral contributions from different institutes but we have foreseen enough time for discussion. The workshop will address the following topics:
The scope of this workshop is to bring together experts from different fields like magnet engineers, medical physicists as well as representative from industry to discuss and review the current status, the requirement and the technical challenges. The workshop should foster interactions amongst people in various labs, institutions and industry. The meeting will be composed of oral contributions from different institutes but we have foreseen enough time for discussion. The workshop will address the following topics:
- Status and requirements of particle gantries for medical application
- Magnet geometries and superconducting cables for future gantries
- Mechanical and thermal stability of SC magnets
- Options and challenges for different SC material
- Beam optics requirements and possibilities with SC gantries
- Future direction and upcoming challenges in gantry development
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Implications of SC magnets on (clinical) operation
Participants
Alexander Gerbershagen
Alexander Koschik
Anthony Huggins
Antony John Lomax
Barbara Ajmo
Berriaud Christophe
Bertrand Baudouy
Christian Geiselhart
Ciro Calzolaio
David Meer
David Robin
Detlef Krischel
Emma Pearson
Emmanuel Voisin
Frank Ebskamp
Futaro Ebina
Gijs de Rijk
Giovanni Grasso
Giuseppe Pitta
Harald Schori
Holger Göbel
Hywel Owen
Jay Flanz
Jeff Pelletier
Joerg Wulff
Jozef Bokor
Judith Salein
Juergen Heese
Jürgen Schultheiss
Lars Kruse
Leonid Rivkin
Leslie Bromberg
Lorenzo Cavallucci
Lucas Brouwer
Manuel Benna
Marc-Jan van Goethem
Marco Lavagno
Marco Negrazus
Marco Pullia
Marco Schippers
Mark Kats
Michael Schillo
Oxana Actis
Pasquale Fabbricatore
Roberto Totaro
Sairos Safai
Serena Psoroulas
Shlomo Caspi
Sibylle Bollhalder
Stefan Keller
Stéphane Sanfilippo
Thierry Schild
Vladimir Anferov
Weishi Wan
Yoshiyuki Iwata