Superconductivity and other new Developments in Gantry Design for Particle Therapy

Europe/Zurich
Park Hotel Bad Zurzach

Park Hotel Bad Zurzach

Badstrasse 44 5330 Bad Zurzach Switzerland
David Meer, Marco Schippers, Stéphane Sanfilippo
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:
  • 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
  • Implications of SC magnets on (clinical) operation
     
This workshop will be held in the Park-Hotel, Bad Zurzach (close to the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)) and on one day at PSI, where a visit will be organized to the PSI's gantries. It is supported by the Enhanced European Coordination for Accelerator Research and Development (EuCard2) and is organized in the framework of work package 4 (Accelerator Applications).
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
    • 12:00 14:00
      Welcome lunch and registration 2h

      Arrival, welcome lunch and registration

    • 14:00 16:00
      Status, requirements and challenges

      Status, Requirements, Challenges and future direction of gantry developments for particle therapy

      Convener: Prof. Jay Flanz (Massachusetts General Hospital)
      • 14:00
        Welcome and introduction 15m
        Speaker: Prof. Marco Schippers (Paul Scherrer Institute)
        Slides
      • 14:15
        Recent developments and experiences in beam optics of compact gantries for proton therapy 45m
        Speaker: Prof. Jay Flanz (Massachusetts General Hospital)
        Slides
      • 15:00
        How to keep high quality treatments using a compact gantry 30m
        Speaker: Dr Emma Pearson (IBA)
        Slides
      • 15:30
        Clinical importance of gantries in particle therapy 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Tony Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institute)
        Slides
    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee break 30m
    • 16:30 18:30
      Status, requirements and challenges

      Status, Requirements, Challenges and future direction of gantry developments for particle therapy

      Convener: Prof. Jay Flanz (Massachusetts General Hospital)
      • 16:30
        Clinical aspects of compact gantry designs 30m
        Speaker: Dr Jürgen Heese (Varian Medical Systems Particle Therapy GmbH)
        Slides
      • 17:00
        Consequences of fast beam scanning on gantry design 30m
        Speaker: Dr Serena Psoroulas (Paul Scherrer Institute)
        Slides
      • 17:30
        Advantages and challenges of superconducting magnets use in gantry design 30m
        Speaker: Dr Alexander Gerbershagen (Paul Scherrer Institute)
        Slides
    • 19:00 20:30
      Dinner 1h 30m
    • 09:00 10:30
      SC magnet technology
      Convener: Dr Stephane Sanfilippo (Paul Scherrer Institute)
      • 09:00
        MgB2 Development for magnets in medical applications 30m
        Speaker: Mr Matteo Tropeano (Columbus Superconductors SpA)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        Last developments and performance of Nb3Sn at CERN 30m
        Speaker: Mr Gijs de Rijk (CERN)
        Slides
      • 10:00
        Cooling methods and cyogenic systems for rotating superconducting magnets 30m
        Speaker: Dr Bertrand Baudouy (CEA Saclay)
        Slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:00 12:30
      SC magnet technology
      Convener: Dr Stephane Sanfilippo (Paul Scherrer Institute)
      • 11:00
        Dynamic effects on superconducting dipoles used for an ion beam cancer therapy gantry 30m
        Speaker: Dr Pasquale Fabbricatore (INFN)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Magnet design for carbon therapy gantry, comparison of alternatives to superconducting gantry 30m
        Speaker: Dr Frank Ebskamp (Danfysik)
        Slides
      • 12:00
        Status of the superconducting rotating gantry for heavy-ion therapy 30m
        Speaker: Dr Yoshiyuki Iwata (NIRS)
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 14:00 15:30
      SC magnet technology
      Convener: Prof. Marco Schippers (Paul Scherrer Institute)
      • 14:00
        Compact curved superconducting magnets for an ion therapy gantry using the Canted Cosine Teta geometry 30m
        Speaker: Dr Shlomo Caspi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Study of a compact curved superconducting dipole for the next generation of gantries at PSI using racetrack coils 30m
        Speaker: Dr Ciro Calzolaio (Paul Scherrer Institute)
        Slides
      • 15:00
        Novel lightweight achromatic superconducting magnets for gantries 30m
        Speaker: Dr Leslie Bromberg (MIT)
        Slides
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffe break 30m
    • 16:00 18:00
      Gantry beam optics

      Gantry beam optics with SC magnets

      Convener: Dr Hywel Owen (University of Manchester)
      • 16:30
        Beam optics in large aperture magnets 30m
        Speaker: Mr Weishi Wan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 17:00
        Parametrization of an upstream scanning system 30m
        Speaker: Dr Oxana Actis (Paul Scherrer Institute)
        Slides
      • 17:30
        Large momentum acceptance super conducting carbon gantry design, and permanent magnet proton gantry design 30m
        Speakers: Prof. Jay Flanz (Massachusetts General Hospital), Dr Marco Pullia (Fondazione CNAO)
        Slides
    • 18:30 19:00
      Apéro 30m Bar

      Bar

    • 19:00 20:30
      Dinner 1h 30m
    • 08:30 09:00
      Transfer Zurzach to PSI 30m

      Transfer Zurzach to Paul Scherrer Institute by bus

    • 09:00 10:20
      Other new developpments Auditorium WHGA/001 (PSI)

      Auditorium WHGA/001

      PSI

      Convener: Dr David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institute)
      • 09:00
        Welcome at PSI: Organization and GFA 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Leonid Rivkin (Paul Scherrer Institute)
        Slides
      • 09:20
        PSI Gantry 3 20m
        Speaker: Dr Alexander Koschik (Paul Scherrer Institute)
        Slides
      • 09:40
        Proton therapy at PSI 20m
        Speaker: Dr Sairos Safai (Paul Scherrer Institut)
        Slides
      • 10:00
        Optimal Transport Systems for Treatment by Proton and Ion Beams 20m
        Speaker: Mr Mark Kats (ITEP)
        Slides
    • 10:20 10:40
      Break 20m Auditorium WHGA/001 (PSI)

      Auditorium WHGA/001

      PSI

      Cold beverage and fruits

    • 10:40 11:10
      Other new developpments Auditorium WHGA/001 (PSI)

      Auditorium WHGA/001

      PSI

      Convener: Dr David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institute)
      • 10:40
        A gantry design based on several identical superconducting magnets 30m
        Speaker: Dr Hywel Owen (University of Manchester)
        Slides
    • 11:10 11:40
      Round table discussion Auditorium WHGA/001 (PSI)

      Auditorium WHGA/001

      PSI

      Conveners: Dr David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institute), Dr Hywel Owen (University of Manchester), Prof. Jay Flanz (Massachusetts General Hospital), Prof. Marco Schippers (Paul Scherrer Institute), Dr Stephane Sanfilippo (Paul Scherrer Institute)
      slides
    • 11:40 13:10
      Tour Center for Proton Therapy 1h 30m Center for Proton Therapy (PSI)

      Center for Proton Therapy

      PSI

      Paul Scherrer Institute 5232 Villigen PSI

      Tour in 4 groups visiting
      - Gantry 1
      - Gantry 2
      - OPTIS2
      - Gantry 3

    • 13:10 14:00
      Lunch and farewell 50m Auditorium WHGA/001 (PSI)

      Auditorium WHGA/001

      PSI

      Paul Scherrer Institute 5232 Villigen PSI