Announcing another speaker for our Annual EventVeliko Dimov has a PhD in accelerator physics from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey). From 2011 to 2016 he worked on the commissioning of Linac4 accelerator and on the design of a high frequency RFQ (radio frequency quadrupole) accelerator at CERN. Since February 2017 he has been working at AVO-ADAM on the construction and commissioning of a medical proton linac at 3GHz. He is specialized on linear accelerator design, beam dynamics, commissioning and operation.


Synopsis

Advanced Oncotherapy is developing a unique, fully integrated, proton therapy system. The proton beam will be accelerated with a linac (Linac for Image Guided Hadron Therapy, LIGHT) up to 230 MeV and then delivered to the treatment room with the high energy beam transport line. The design of the linac will allow fast intensity and energy (between 70-230 MeV) modulation for pencil-beam scanning during cancer treatment. A prototype of LIGHT up to 52 MeV has been successfully commissioned at a CERN site in Geneva, Switzerland. End-to-end testing of the proton therapy system will be done in STFC Daresbury laboratory, Warrington, UK. The installation of the accelerator in Daresbury will start at the end of 2018. Following the testing in Daresbury, the first medical system for patient treatment will be installed in London Harley Street Proton Therapy Center, Marylebone, London. In this talk, the LIGHT system, its development and commissioning will be summarized. The plans for the installation in Daresbury and Harley Street will be presented by focusing on the technological and site-specific challenges. 


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