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TY - CONF AU - Pivi, M.T.F. AU - Adler, L. AU - Guidoboni, G. AU - Kowarik, G. AU - Kurfürst, C. AU - Maderböck, C. AU - Pavlovič, M. AU - Prokopovich, D.A. AU - Pullia, M.G. AU - Rizzoglio, V. AU - Strašík, I. ED - Zimmermann, Frank ED - Tanaka, Hitoshi ED - Sudmuang, Porntip ED - Klysubun, Prapong ED - Sunwong, Prapaiwan ED - Chanwattana, Thakonwat ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. TI - Gantry Beamline and Rotator Commissioning at the Medaustron Ion Therapy Center J2 - Proc. of IPAC2022, Bangkok, Thailand, 12-17 June 2022 CY - Bangkok, Thailand T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 13 LA - english AB - The MedAustron Particle Therapy Accelerator located in Austria, delivers proton beams in the energy range 60-250 MeV/n and carbon ions 120-400 MeV/n for medical treatment in two irradiation rooms, clinically used for tumor therapy. Proton beams up to 800 MeV/n are also provided to a room dedicated to scientific research. Over the last two years, in parallel to clinical operations, we have completed the installation and commissioning of the gantry beam line in a dedicated room, ready for the first patient treatment in early 2022. In this manuscript, we provide an overview of the MedAustron gantry beam commissioning including the world-wide first ’rotator’ system, a rotating beamline located upstream of the gantry and used to match the slowly extracted non-symmetric beams into the coordinate system of the gantry. Using the rotator, all beam parameters at the location of the patient become independent of the gantry rotation angle. Furthermore, both the gantry and the high energy transfer line optics had to be redesigned and adapted to the rotator-mode of operation. A review of the beam commissioning including technical solutions, main results and reference measurements is presented. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 2933 EP - 2936 KW - MMI KW - proton KW - optics KW - quadrupole KW - radiation DA - 2022/07 PY - 2022 SN - 2673-5490 SN - 978-3-95450-227-1 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOMS002 UR - https://jacow.org/ipac2022/papers/thpoms002.pdf ER -