Commissioning operations and performances of the Dose Delivery system for CNAO

Author

Giordanengo, Simona ; Donetti, Marco ; Garella, Maria Adelaide ; Lavagno, Marco ; Ansarinejad, Abdolkazem ; Cirio, Roberto ; Marasso, Emanuele ; Marchetto, Flavio ; Peroni, Cristiana ; Sacchi, Roberto

Author_Institution

Ist. Naz. di Fis. Nucleare, Torino, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

23-29 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

2811

Lastpage

2814

Abstract

The first Italian hospital-based facility for hadron therapy, the Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica (CNAO), is treating patients since a few weeks. The optimization and commissioning of the Dose Delivery system have been performed in the course of the current year and were concluded in August 2011. After a short introduction on the CNAO and the Dose Delivery features, the paper describes the main operations from the Treatment Planning System output to the end of the particle delivery operation. A second section focuses on the tests and measurements performed for the commissioning reporting also on the measured performances. The Dose Delivery short-term perspectives are then added to the conclusions.

Keywords

commissioning; dosimetry; optimisation; CNAO; Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica; Italian hospital-based facility; commissioning operations; dose delivery system; hadron therapy; optimization; particle delivery operation; treatment planning system output; Atmospheric measurements; Calibration; Energy measurement; Monitoring; Particle beams; Particle measurements; Position measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Valencia

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0118-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6153644

Filename

6153644