Speaker
Paolo Meliga
(National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy)
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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Author
Paolo Meliga
(National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy)
Co-authors
Erminia Bressi
(National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy)
Giovanni Debernardi
(National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy)
Luciano Falbo
(National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy)
Cristiana Priano
(National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy)
