Speaker
Paolo Meliga
(Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica)
Description
CNAO is one the six hadrontherapy centers all around the world that produce
both proton and carbon
ions beams.
It is based on a synchrotron in which the beams are extracted by a slow extraction mechanism that uses a betatron core.
In the last years an electrostatic exciter has been installed along the ring in order to allow
beam extraction using the RF-KO method.
The system has been commissioned and allows extraction according to the clinical beam parameters.
The paper illustrates how the RF-KO method has been implemented in CNAO under the hardware and software
point of view. The characteristics of the proton and carbon beams will be also presented.
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Primary author
Paolo Meliga
(Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica)
Co-authors
Erminia Bressi
(Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica)
Giovanni Debernardi
(Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica)
Luciano Falbo
(Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica)
Cristiana Priano
(Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica)
