10–15 Aug 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
America/Los_Angeles timezone

Beamline Optics Design of a New Two-Room Treatment Suite at the McLaren Proton Therapy Center

THP013
14 Aug 2025, 16:00
2h
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

1401 K St, Sacramento, CA 95814
Poster Presentation MC8 – Applications of Accelerators, Technology Transfer, Industrial Relations, and Outreach THP: Thursday Poster Session

Speaker

George Gillespie (G. H. Gillespie Associates (United States))

Description

A fixed-beam, two room suite with upright chairs for patient positioning, is being installed at the McLaren Proton Therapy Center (MPTC). The MPTC is an operational, multi-room cancer treatment center. The new suite adds a third (A) and fourth (B) room by branching off upstream of the two clinically active half-gantry treatment rooms. This imposed a number of constraints on the beamlines of the new suite. The new beamline uses a Y-shaped selection dipole to switch between the suite’s room A and room B. The design was further constrained by the need to replicate the clinically active rooms’ beam characteristics at the new patient locations. This paper provides an overview of the methodology of the design studies for the new beamlines together with selected results. The work helped to establish the feasibility of installing a two-room treatment suite into a space originally designed for a gantry-based single treatment room.

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Authors

George Gillespie (G. H. Gillespie Associates (United States)) Dr John Gordon (Pyramid Technical Consultants (United States)) Joshua Konzer (McLaren Regional Medical Center)

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