Radiotherapy

CERN’s Know-How

• Decades of experience in simulation, design, construction and operation of accelerators. Bespoke hardware and software for acceleration, diagnostics, beam control and monitoring.
• In-house design and modelling of superconductive devices and magnet systems. Design, integration and operation of large-scale cryogenic systems.
• High spatial resolution detectors for measuring particle beam structure and energy deposition in hadron therapy.
• Accurate simulation tools for modelling particle passage through matter.

Facts & Figures

• 1980’s: Start of medical accelerator development at CERN.
• <100 milliseconds: Treatment time with electron FLASH radiotherapy.
• >80%. Expected reduction in weight offered by GaToroid vs. conventional gantries for proton and carbon ion therapy.
• 2m: The CERN compact HF-RFQ reaches an energy of 5MeV within this distance.