A team of GFA and CPT physicists has worked out a novel achromatic beam optics concept for a proton therapy gantry. The article on the concept in the journal Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik has been awarded a prize for the best publication in 2016. The jury states: „The paper of Alexander Gerbershagen et al. entitled „A novel beam optics concept in a particle therapy gantry utilizing the advantages of superconducting magnets” describes a new concept of a first order design of the beam optics of a superconducting proton therapy gantry beam. The jury was impressed by the well-structured experimental work with clear improvement of large momentum acceptance in the gantry which opens the possibility of implementation new and faster dose application techniques in proton therapy.”
The announcement and a link to the paper can be found here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/zeitschrift-fur-medizinische-physik/awards/author-award-2017-for-best-publication
The prize was awarded to Dr. Gerbershagen at the yearly assembly of the German Society for Medical Physics in Dresden, September 2017.
The announcement and a link to the paper can be found here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/zeitschrift-fur-medizinische-physik/awards/author-award-2017-for-best-publication
The prize was awarded to Dr. Gerbershagen at the yearly assembly of the German Society for Medical Physics in Dresden, September 2017.
