학술논문

Magnet Developments and Commissioning for the IBA Compact Gantry
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on. 24(3):1-4 Jun, 2014
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Magnetic noise
Magnetic shielding
Saturation magnetization
Magnetic separation
Particle beams
Magnetic field measurement
Optics
Isocentric gantry
protontherapy
Language
ISSN
1051-8223
1558-2515
2378-7074
Abstract
The ProteusOne gantry will be the first IBA gantry with scanning upstream of the last bending magnet. This configuration offers the combined advantage of compactness and Pencil Beam Scanning (PBS) with reasonable source to gantry axis distance (SAD). This new proton therapy gantry required modifications on existing IBA beam line magnets as well as development of new ones. This paper presents the basic features and advantages of the gantry optics and details the magnets that needed to be designed. In addition, some specific issues raised by the gantry compactness will be detailed. The scanning magnet and the last, wide gap, bending magnet required special attention to ensure good quality beam optics. Indeed, due to the small distance between them, careful design is required to minimize their mutual influence. Parts of the gantry structural elements also had to be taken into account, adding complexity to the magnetic modeling and requiring very good collaboration between beam optics and mechanical design teams. Finally, some details of the commissioning of the magnets and model crosschecks are also presented.