TERA Programme: Medical Applications of Protons and Ions
Ugo Amaldi
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Abstract
The most recent applications of hadron accelerators to tumor therapy are reviewed and the Italian
Hadrontherapy Programme is presented in the framework of what is done and planned in the rest of
the world.
This project foresees three independent but coherent activities:
- the construction of a large National Centre for Oncological Hadrontherapy based on a
22m diameter synchrotron, with 4 rooms for proton treatment and 1 room for ion treatment (which is
suitable for radioresistant tumours);
- the construction (financed by Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome) of a 3 GHZ linac which
will accelerate protons to 200 MeV. The second part of this linac can also be used as 200 MeV
booster for protons accelerated to 60-70 MeV by high current cyclotrons;
- a multimedia information network (RITA) connecting the Associated Centres with the
Centres having hadron beams, so to select before any travelling the patients to be irradiated.
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