MedAustron is an accelerator facility with a synchrotron for cancer therapy and research located in Wiener Neustadt, 50 km south of Vienna. The facility provides protons up to kinetic energies of 250 MeV and carbon ions up to 400 MeV/u for medical applications. Additionally, protons up to 800 MeV kinetic energy can be used for non-clinical research purposes in a dedicated room.
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The existing ion therapy facility MedAustron operates a synchrotron providing proton and carbon ion beams for treatment of tumor patients as well as research. The facility has one research irradiation room plus three treatment rooms (one proton gantry, one vertical beam line and two horizontal beam lines). From an accelerator point of view, it would be possible to deliver other ion species....
Typical bunkers for radiation therapy with linear accelerators (LA) include mazes in order to minimize shield thickness of entrance doors while remaining allowed level of exposure outside them. Despite common general layouts, the design of each bunker is of individual approach depending on its location and type of LA. Sometimes there is inappropriate relative dimension of treatment room and...
Hadrontherapy is a radiotherapy technique that exploits accelerated particles to treat oncological patients. Protons are the primary particles utilised in such treatments, although there are only a few centres worldwide where also carbon ions are adopted. One of these centres is The National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy (CNAO), located in Pavia, Italy. The facility accelerates protons...
The National Centre for Oncological Hadrontherapy (CNAO) stands as one of the few facilities in the world capable of treating oncology patients using both protons and carbon ions accelerated by a synchrotron. In the near future, this machine will undergo an upgrade, incorporating a new ion source that allows the exploitation of helium, lithium, oxygen, and iron ions for both therapeutic and...
A facility for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy based on a 30 mA, 5 MeV proton Radio Frequency Quadrupole Accelerator (RFQ) coupled with a beryllium target will be built at the University of Campania 'L. Vanvitelli' in Caserta (Italy). The National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) is in charge of the technology and collaborates on the design of the facility in the framework of the PNC-PNRR...
