Industry meets Academia: Beam Monitoring Instrumentation and Quality Assurance

The talk will present an overview of the particle therapy commercial marketplace (players, technology trends etc) as well as of the particle therapy beam delivery options (accelerator types, scattering and scanning). Diagnostic devices (multiwire and multistrip chambers, scintillators, Faraday cups); Some discussion of commercial electrometer design options for multichannel low-current...

HIT uses MWPC/IC-combinations and scintillating screens designed, manufactured and tested at GSI. These detectors are necessary for the daily operation of the HIT accelerator to ensure the quality of the beam. A daily QA check with a substantial random sample of beam parameters at different locations in the High Energy Beam Transport Line area secures a reliable basis for the irradiation of...

The Siemens IONTRIS system for Particle Therapy (*) comprises the raster scanning method for beam application. Due to the concept of reducing material in the beam path as much as possible, gaseous detectors are used to control beam application. The detectors are embedded into a detector system, comprising HV-generation, slow control, amplifier electronics, ADC’s and reconstruction. Detector...

Industrial particle therapy solutions include a wide variety of beam monitoring devices. Detectors used in the IBA system may be sorted in two categories: those used for monitoring the cyclotron accelerator and the beamline, and the external devices used for calibration, validation and quality assurance purposes. Driven by robustness, maintainability and cost, IBA has selected simple designs...