Design, integration, and commissioning of the first linac for image guided hadron therapy prototype
A. Degiovanni, Giovanni De Michele, Rossana Bonomi, Francisco Cabaleiro Magallanes, Michele Caldara, Veliko Dimov, Marco Esposito, D. A. Fink, Manuel Gallas Torreira, Y. Ivanisenko, Adam Jeff, Stefano Magnoni, Luis Navarro Quirante, Hannes Pavetits, Alessandra Valloni, J. P. Adam, Debora Aguilera Murciano, Sandra Aumon, Carlo Baccigalupi, Laura Baiguera Tambutti, Sylvain Bailly, S. Ballestrero, François Bellorini, Stefano De Benedetti, A. Benot Morell, Denia Bouhired, M. Breitenfeldt, Sylvain Candolfi, G. Castorina, M. Červ, Beatriz Conde Fernandez, G. D’Auria, Cristovao Andre Dionisio Barreto, Luigi Salvatore Esposito, A. Fabich, Stefano Fanella, Daniel Fazio, Yoann Fusco, F. Galizzi, S. M. Gibson, Marina Giunta, M. Fernández, Paolo Gradassi, Alisa Healy, Vasim Khan, Lisa Kobzeva, Miguel Leal Seixas Correia, Gabriel Levy, Lucile Madoulaud, Guillaume Magrin, Antonio Marraffa, C. Mellace, Alberto Milla Moreno, R. Moser, Diogo Murteira, Stephen Myers, Patricio Nadig, Jacopo Nardulli, G. Nüessle, Yousri Ouerghi, A. Revuelta, Pablo Paz Neira, Christopher Rejas, Diomedes Roman Concha, Theodore Rutter, Friederike Salveter, Alexandre Samochkine, Andres Sanchez Gonzalez, Dario Soriano Guillen, Pierpaolo Stabile, Katarzyna Stachyra, Donatella Ungaro, Bartlomiej Urbaniec, Marta Bravo Martínez del Valle, Daniel Vazquez Rivera, L. Wallet, D. Watts, Carlo Zannini
Abstract
The Linac for Image Guided Hadron Therapy (LIGHT) system has been developed as the first commercial high-frequency linac-based proton therapy accelerator system. As part of the development process and of the technical validation of the concept, a reduced energy prototype linac (including all the key functional aspects of the full energy accelerator) has been designed and tested in parallel with the preparation work for a full-scale system. The LIGHT prototype construction, installation, and commissioning with beam allowed the identification of technical gaps and design improvements before the transfer to a medical device implementation. This paper gives a comprehensive summary of the design and integration aspects and presents for the first time the results achieved with the LIGHT prototype that was installed and commissioned on CERN premises in the years 2015–2019. Published by the American Physical Society 2024