Optimization of Medical Accelerators

Información del proyecto

OMA

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 675265

DOI

10.3030/675265

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 28 Julio 2015

Fecha de inicio 1 Febrero 2016

Fecha de finalización 31 Enero 2020

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 3 852 879,13

Aportación de la UE

€ 3 852 879,13

Coordinado por

THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
United Kingdom

CORDIS proporciona enlaces a los documentos públicos y las publicaciones de los proyectos de los programas marco HORIZONTE.

Los enlaces a los documentos y las publicaciones de los proyectos del Séptimo Programa Marco, así como los enlaces a algunos tipos de resultados específicos, como conjuntos de datos y «software», se obtienen dinámicamente de OpenAIRE .

Resultado final

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (15)

Use of MC codes for treatment planning and imaging

implemented and first tests realized

detector layout

completed and demonstrator available

non-invasive beam monitoring in storage rings and treatment beam lines

demonstrated

treatment database
Results from measurements on samples

available and published

Summary on most efficient 3/4 D patient recognition systems
First software version ready for tests
VELO prototype setup

Prototype ready

final monitor layout

realized, demonstrator build and paper published

Modifications to CTF3 and tests at CERN

realized and data available

studies into different detector materials

realized and assessed

Diagnostics integration

analyzed and prototypes realized

radiobiological models in patient voxel representation

available and benchmarked

Prototype design

completed

Technical framework (HW and SW) of optical tracking devices for respiratory motion modelling in 4D CT and time-resolved dose delivery

Documents, reports (15)

PC readout software
Conference Proceedings

published

Report on the performances and conclusion on the recommended approaches
Final design report

completed

identification of optimum materials through measurements at CCC with ULIV

Results summarized in report

Slow workflow environment prototype

available

Models for nuclear interaction

available and tested against data

Beamline diagnostics concept

developed and assessed in tests

performance in clinical environments

Report about performance in clinical environments

LDHRS results

available and published

Results from studies into recognition performance

carried out and results published

Benefit analysis

carried out and published

First integrated model for treatment planning and imaging

available, tested and benchmarked

use of high gradient rf accelerators for medical applications

assessed and findings published

Results from MC studies into detector performance with LMU and CERN

available and published

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (4)

Project brochure

completed and published

Final brochure

completed and published

OMA web site

operational

Project leaflet

completed and published

Other (3)

Final conference

held

Outreach Symposium

held

Outreach activities

completed

Publicaciones

Peer reviewed articles (21)

Sensitivity of a prompt-gamma slit-camera to detect range shifts for proton treatment verification

Autores: Lena Nenoff, Marlen Priegnitz, Guillaume Janssens, Johannes Petzoldt, Patrick Wohlfahrt, Anna Trezza, Julien Smeets, Guntram Pausch, Christian Richter
Publicado en: Radiotherapy and Oncology, Edición 125/3, 2017, Página(s) 534-540, ISSN 0167-8140
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2017.10.013

Dielectric-Filled Reentrant Cavity Resonator as a Low-Intensity Proton Beam Diagnostic

Autores: Sudharsan Srinivasan, Pierre-André Duperrex
Publicado en: Instruments, Edición 2/4, 2018, Página(s) 24, ISSN 2410-390X
Editor: MDPR
DOI: 10.3390/instruments2040024

Correction of Geometrical Effects of a Knife-Edge Slit Camera for Prompt Gamma-Based Range Verification in Proton Therapy

Autores: Johannes Petzoldt, Guillaume Janssens, Lena Nenoff, Christian Richter, Julien Smeets
Publicado en: Instruments, Edición 2/4, 2018, Página(s) 25, ISSN 2410-390X
Editor: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/instruments2040025

Development of the LHCb VELO Detector Modules into a Standalone, Non-Invasive Online Beam Monitor for Medical Accelerators

Autores: Roland Schnuerer, Jacinta Yap, Hao Zhang, Tomasz Cybulski, Tony Smith, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Girard, Tomasz Szumlak, Carsten Welsch
Publicado en: Instruments, Edición 3/1, 2019, Página(s) 1, ISSN 2410-390X
Editor: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/instruments3010001

Feasibility Study of a Proton Irradiation Facility for Radiobiological Measurements at an 18 MeV Cyclotron

Autores: Anna Baratto-Roldán, María Jiménez-Ramos, Maria Battaglia, Javier García-López, María Gallardo, Miguel Cortés-Giraldo, José Espino
Publicado en: Instruments, Edición 2/4, 2018, Página(s) 26, ISSN 2410-390X
Editor: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/instruments2040026

Toward a new treatment planning approach accounting for in vivo proton range verification

Autores: Liheng Tian, Guillaume Landry, Georgios Dedes, Florian Kamp, Marco Pinto, Katharina Niepel, Claus Belka, Katia Parodi
Publicado en: Physics in Medicine & Biology, Edición 63/21, 2018, Página(s) 215025, ISSN 1361-6560
Editor: IOP
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aae749

Measurement of He 4 charge- and mass-changing cross sections on H, C, O, and Si targets in the energy range 70–220 MeV/u for radiation transport calculations in ion-beam therapy

Autores: Felix Horst, Giulia Aricò, Kai-Thomas Brinkmann, Stephan Brons, Alfredo Ferrari, Thomas Haberer, Andrea Mairani, Katia Parodi, Claire-Anne Reidel, Uli Weber, Klemens Zink, Christoph Schuy
Publicado en: Physical Review C, Edición 99/1, 2019, ISSN 2469-9985
Editor: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.99.014603

Abstract ID: 196 Relation between dose average linear energy transfer and dose mean lineal energy calculated for proton therapy beams off axis: A study with the Geant4 toolkit.

Autores: Anna Baratto-Roldán, Peter Kimstrand, Álvaro Perales Molina, Alejandro Carabe, Miguel Antonio Cortés-Giraldo
Publicado en: Physica Medica, Edición 42, 2017, Página(s) 42-43, ISSN 1120-1797
Editor: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2017.09.104

The AD and ELENA orbit, trajectory and intensity measurement systems

Autores: R. Marco-Hernández, D. Alves, M.E. Angoletta, O. Marqversen, J. Molendijk, E. Oponowicz, R. Ruffieux, J. Sánchez-Quesada, L. SØby
Publicado en: Journal of Instrumentation, Edición 12/07, 2017, Página(s) P07024-P07024, ISSN 1748-0221
Editor: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/12/07/p07024

Prompt Gamma Rays Detected With a BGO Block Compton Camera Reveal Range Deviations of Therapeutic Proton Beams

Autores: F. Hueso-Gonzalez, G. Pausch, J. Petzoldt, K. E. Romer, W. Enghardt
Publicado en: IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences, Edición 1/1, 2017, Página(s) 76-86, ISSN 2469-7311
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/tns.2016.2622162

EP-1801: Prompt gamma imaging for the identification of proton range deviations due to anatomical change

Autores: Y. Xie, J. Petzoldt, G. Janssens, L. Yin, E.H. Bentefour, J. Smeets, D. Prieels, R.L. Lustig, A. Lin, B.K. Teo
Publicado en: Radiotherapy and Oncology, Edición 127, 2018, Página(s) S967-S968, ISSN 0167-8140
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(18)32110-8

OC-0081: From range measurements to dose: in-vivo dosimetry using the prompt gamma camera

Autores: S. Toscano, K. Souris, E. Sterpin, G. Janssens, J. Petzoldt, F. Vander Stappen, J. Smeets, X. Geets, K. Teo
Publicado en: Radiotherapy and Oncology, Edición 127, 2018, Página(s) S40, ISSN 0167-8140
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(18)30391-8

Construction and commissioning of the S-Band high gradient RF laboratory at IFIC

Autores: D. Esperante, C. Blanch, M. Boronat, J. Fuster, D. Gonzalez Iglesias, A. Vnuchenko, B. Gimeno, N. Catalan Lasheras, G. Mcmonagle, I. Syratchev, W. Wuensch, B. Woolley, A. Faus Golfe
Publicado en: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Edición 1067, 2018, Página(s) 082024, ISSN 1742-6588
Editor: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1067/8/082024

Processing of prompt gamma-ray timing data for proton range measurements at a clinical beam delivery

Autores: Theresa Werner, Jonathan Berthold, Fernando Hueso-González, Toni Koegler, Johannes Petzoldt, Katja Roemer, Christian Richter, Andreas Rinscheid, Arno Straessner, Wolfgang Enghardt, Guntram Pausch
Publicado en: Physics in Medicine & Biology, Edición 64/10, 2019, Página(s) 105023, ISSN 1361-6560
Editor: Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab176d

Technical Note: Simulation of dose buildup in proton pencil beams

Autores: Laurent Kelleter, Benjamin Zhen-Hong Tham, Ruben Saakyan, Jennifer Griffiths, Richard Amos, Simon Jolly, Adam Gibson
Publicado en: Medical Physics, Edición 46/8, 2019, Página(s) 3734-3738, ISSN 0094-2405
Editor: American Association of Physicists in Medicine
DOI: 10.1002/mp.13660

OC-0187 Comparison of proton range predictions between Single- and Dual-Energy CT using prompt gamma imaging

Autores: T. Boon-Keng, Y. Xie, F. O’Grady, A. Lalonde, J. Petzoldt, J. Smeets, G. Janssens
Publicado en: Radiotherapy and Oncology, Edición 133, 2019, Página(s) S95-S96, ISSN 0167-8140
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(19)30607-3

Dose‐averaged LET calculation for proton track segments using microdosimetric Monte Carlo simulations

Autores: A. Bertolet, A. Baratto‐Roldán, S. Barbieri, G. Baiocco, A. Carabe, M.A. Cortés‐Giraldo
Publicado en: Medical Physics, Edición 46/9, 2019, Página(s) 4184-4192, ISSN 0094-2405
Editor: American Association of Physicists in Medicine
DOI: 10.1002/mp.13643

Segment‐averaged LET concept and analytical calculation from microdosimetric quantities in proton radiation therapy

Autores: A. Bertolet, A. Baratto‐Roldán, M. A. Cortés‐Giraldo, A. Carabe‐Fernandez
Publicado en: Medical Physics, Edición 46/9, 2019, Página(s) 4204-4214, ISSN 0094-2405
Editor: American Association of Physicists in Medicine
DOI: 10.1002/mp.13673

OC-0566 Range verification in proton therapy: Can prompt-gamma imaging identify the source of deviation?

Autores: C. Khamfongkhruea, G. Janssens, J. Petzoldt, J. Smeets, G. Pausch, C. Richter
Publicado en: Radiotherapy and Oncology, Edición 133, 2019, Página(s) S296-S297, ISSN 0167-8140
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(19)30986-7

Measurement of PET isotope production cross sections for protons and carbon ions on carbon and oxygen targets for applications in particle therapy range verification

Autores: Felix Horst, Wihan Adi, Giulia Aricò, Kai-Thomas Brinkmann, Marco Durante, Claire-Anne Reidel, Marta Rovituso, Uli Weber, Hans-Georg Zaunick, Klemens Zink, Christoph Schuy
Publicado en: Physics in Medicine & Biology, Edición 64/20, 2019, Página(s) 205012, ISSN 1361-6560
Editor: IOP
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab4511

First benchmarking of the BIANCA model for cell survival prediction in a clinical hadron therapy scenario

Autores: M P Carante, G Aricò, A Ferrari, W Kozlowska, A Mairani, F Ballarini
Publicado en: Physics in Medicine & Biology, Edición 64/21, 2019, Página(s) 215008, ISSN 1361-6560
Editor: IOP
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab490f

Conference proceedings (20)

Upgrade Study of the MedAustron Ion Beam Center

Autores: A. De Franco et al.
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC’17, 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2017-thpva074

Optimized Cryogenic Current Comparator for CERN's Low-Energy Antiproton Facilities

Autores: M. Fernandes, A. Lees, D. Alves, T. Koettig, E. Oponowicz, J. Tan, C. Welsch, R. Geithner, R. Neubert, T. Stöhlker, M. Schwickert
Publicado en: Proceedings IBIC’16, 5th International Beam Instrumentation Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2016
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ibic2016-mopg48

Range Verification in Proton Therapy by Prompt Gamma-Ray Timing (PGT): Steps towards Clinical Implementation

Autores: Theresa Werner, Jonathan Berthold, Wolfgang Enghardt, Fernando Hueso-Gonzalez, Toni Kogler, Johannes Petzoldt, Christian Richter, Andreas Rinscheid, Katja Romer, Kai Ruhnau, Julien Smeets, Jurgen Stein, Arno Straessner, Andreas Wolf, Guntram Pausch
Publicado en: 2017 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2017, Página(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-5386-2282-7
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2017.8532807

Non-Invasive beam monitoring using LHCb VELO

Autores: R. Schnuerer, J S.L. Yap, H. Zhang, C.P. Welsch
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC’17, 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2017-thpva1

Superconducting Gantry Design for Proton Tomography

Autores: E. Oponowicz, H. Owen
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC’17, 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2017-thpva140

First Optics Design and Beam Performance Simulation of PRAE: Platform for Research and Applications with Electrons at Orsay

Autores: A. Faus-Golfe, S. Barsuk, B. Borgo, D. Douillet, A. Vnuchenko et al.
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC’17, 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2017-thpva079

Design and Construction of a High-Gradient RF Lab at IFIC-Valencia

Autores: A. Vnuchenko, N. Catalan Lasheras, G. Mcmonagle, I. Syratchev, W. Wuensch, A. Faus Golfe, T. Argyropoulos, C. Blanch, D. Esperante, J. Giner
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC’17, 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2017-thpik081

Implementation of a non-invasive online beam monitor at a 60 MeV proton therapy beamline

Autores: R. Schnuerer, J S.L. Yap, H. Zhang, G.J. Haefeli, O. Girard and C.P. Welsch
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC’18, 9th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2018
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2018-mopml024

High Power and High Repetition Rate X-band Power Source Using Multiple Klystrons

Autores: M. Volpi, M. Boland, C. Serpico, A. Vnuchenko, W. Wuensch et al.
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC’18, 9th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2018
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2018-thpmk104

Reentrant cavity resonator for low intensities proton beam measurements

Autores: S. Srinivasan, P. A. Duperrex
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC’18, 9th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2018
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2018-wepal069

High Power Conditioning of X-Band RF Components

Autores: N. Catalan-Lasheras, H. Damerau, R. Gerard, V. del Pozo Romano, A. Vnuchenko et al.
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC’18, 9th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2018
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2018-wepmf074

Initial Testing of Techniques for Large Scale Rf Conditioning for the Compact Linear Collider

Autores: T. G. Lucas, M. Boland, A. Grudiev, A. Vnuchenko, W. Wuensch, R. Zennaro, et al.
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC’18, 9th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2018
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2018-thpmk103

High Gradient Performance of an S-Band Backward Traveling Wave Accelerating Structure for Medical Hadron Therapy Accelerators

Autores: A. Vnuchenko, S. Benedetti, C. Blanch Gutiérrez, N. Catalán Lasheras, D. Esperante Pereira, A. Faus-Golfe, A. Grudiev, B. Koubek, T. Lucas, G. McMonagle, I. Syratchev, B. J. Woolley, W. Wuensch
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC’18, 9th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2018
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2018-mopml043

Start-to-End Beam Dynamic Simulations for PRAE

Autores: A. Vnuchenko, A. Latina, C. Bruni, M. El Khaldi, A. Faus Golfe, P. Lepercq, C. Vallerand
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC’18, 9th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2018
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2018-mopml044

Beam Characterisation Using MEDIPIX3 and EBT3 Film at the Clatterbridge Proton Therapy Beamline

Autores: J. S.L. Yap, N. J. S. Bal, A. Kacperek, J. Resta-Lopez, C.P. Welsch et al.
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC'19, 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2019
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2019-thpmp033

Non-Invasive beam monitoring using LHCb VELO with 40 MeV protons

Autores: R. Schnuerer, J S.L. Yap, H. Zhang, T. Szumlak, T. Price and C.P. Welsch
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC'19, 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2019
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2019-thpmp043

Quadrated dielectric-filled reentrant cavity resonator as a proton beam position diagnostic

Autores: S. Srinivasan, P. A. Duperrex, J. M. Schippers
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC'19, 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2019
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2019-wepgw083

Superconducting Dipole Design for a Proton Computed Tomography Gantry

Autores: E. Oponowicz, H. Owen
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC'19, 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2019
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2019-thpmp054

Developments of the nuclear reaction and fragmentation models in FLUKA for ion collisions at therapeutic energies

Autores: G. Aricò, A. Ferrari, F. Horst, A. Mairani, C.-A. Reidel, C. Schuy, U. Weber
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms, Varenna, Italia, (2018), CERN Proceedings, Edición 1, 2019, Página(s) 321 - 326
Editor: CERN

Dark Current Analysis at CERN’s X-band Facility

Autores: D. Banon-Caballero, A. Vnuchenko, M. Boronat, N. Catalán Lasheras, A. Faus-Golfe, B. Gimeno, W. Wuensch et al.
Publicado en: Proceedings IPAC'19, 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2019
Editor: JACoW
DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2019-weprb059