Title :
The GSI Cancer Therapy Project
Author :
Eickhoff, H. ; Haberer, Th ; Kraft, G. ; Krause, U. ; Poppensieker, K. ; Richter, M. ; Steiner, R.
Author_Institution :
Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung mbH, Darmstadt, Germany
Abstract :
At the Heavy Ion Research Institute GSI in Darmstadt an experimental cancer treatment program with a five years duration has been developed. A new method for cancer treatment with ions is applied, using a rasterscan method in addition to an active pulse to pulse variations of ion beam properties, including the energy, intensity and focusing. An overview of this Cancer Therapy Project is presented, that covers both accelerator aspects to provide the required beam variations within a short time and the installations at the treatment place for rasterscan control. In addition to a description of the technical design (control hard- and software) experimental results will be shown, containing the achieved beam properties and measurements of rasterscan performance
Keywords :
cancer; ion accelerators; linear accelerators; radiation therapy; Cancer Therapy Project; GSI; Heavy Ion Research Institute; cancer treatment program; ion accelerator; rasterscan method; Cancer; Ion accelerators; Ion beams; Medical treatment; Optical control; Optical design; Particle beams; Physics; Reproducibility of results; Software design;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the 1997
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4376-X
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.1997.753420
