@inproceedings{6349223e194c43dfbc686ac39a26a116,
title = "Status of commissioning of gantry 3 at the PSI PROSCAN facility",
abstract = "Paul Scherrer Institute currently extends its PROSCAN facility with a third gantry treatment room - Gantry 3, which is realized in the framework of a research collaboration with Varian Medical Systems (VMS). The main research goals at the PROSCAN facility include further development of precise spot scanning and optimized beam delivery with low dead-time for treatment of moving targets. Consequently Gantry 3 is designed to feature advanced pencil beam scanning technology with a large scan field size of 30 × 40 cm2, integrated cone beam CT functionality and will in the future allow fast energy layer switching. The main challenge in realizing Gantry 3 is the integration of the Varian Gantry into the existing PROSCAN control system environment, allowing seamless beam operation. Installation of the additional treatment room has started in summer 2015 followed by the integration and technical commissioning phases of the Gantry in 2016, all during full operation of the existing treatment areas at our facility. We report about the special challenges and achieved performance results during commissioning of the Varian Gantry system in combination with the PSI PROSCAN facility.",
author = "A. Koschik and J. Duppich and M. Eichin and P. Fernandez and A. Gerbershagen and A. Lomax and D. Meer and S. Safai and Schippers, {J. M.} and Weber, {D. C.}",
note = "Funding Information: We want to thank the entire Varian PT team as well as the Cosylab team for their continued effort and commitment on this project and their patience and endurance in the whole commissioning period. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 CC-BY-3.0 and by the respective authors; 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC 2017 ; Conference date: 14-05-2017 Through 19-05-2017",
year = "2017",
month = jul,
language = "English",
series = "IPAC 2017 - Proceedings of the 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference",
publisher = "Joint Accelerator Conferences Website - JACoW",
pages = "4744--4746",
booktitle = "IPAC 2017 - Proceedings of the 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference",
}