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The Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center PARTNER PARTNER Thomas Haberer and Goal The key element to improve the clinical outcome is local control! local control! outcome is entrance channel: tumour: low


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The Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center and PARTNER

Thomas Haberer Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center

PARTNER

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Goal

The key element to improve the clinical

  • utcome is

local control!

  • utcome is local control!

entrance channel:

  • low physical dose
  • low rel biol effiency

tumour:

  • high physical dose
  • high rel biol effiency

low rel. biol. effiency high rel. biol. effiency

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Standard Approach

  • Facilities being built at

g existing research accelerators Fi d hi

  • Fixed energy machines

with moderate flexibility (if at all)

  • Dose delivery not exactly

tumor-conform

  • Th. Haberer, Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center
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Carbon Ion Therapy at NIRS

(June 1994-August 2004)

Lung Pancreas Rectum 15 (1.2%) Eye 13 (1.0%) Miscell. 148 (11.4%) 245 (18.9%) Base of skull 20 (1.5%) 18 (1.4%)

Total 2,297

Head & Neck 207 (16.0%) Brain Esophagus 23 (1.8%) Uterus 78 (6.0%) Brain 74 (5.7%) Prostate 190 (14.6%) Liver 145 (11.2%) Bone/ soft tissue 121 (9.3%) ( )

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Carbon Ion Therapy @ GSI

  • Th. Haberer, Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center
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Rasterscan Method

scanning of focussed ion beams in fast in fast dipole magnets active variation

  • f the energy,

focus and intensity in the accelerator and accelerator and beam lines utmost precision via active position and intensity feed back loops back loops intensity-controlled rasterscan technique @ GSI Haberer et al., NIM A , 1993

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Key Developments @ GSI

  • Scanning-ready pencil beam library (25.000 combinations):

253 energies (1mm range steps) x 7 spot sizes x 15 intensity steps

  • Rasterscan method incl. approved controls and safety

pp y

  • Beammonitors follow the scanned beams (v <= 40 m/s) in real-time
  • Biological interactionmodel based on 25 years of radiobiological

research

  • Physical beam transportmodel
  • Planningsystem TRiP
  • In-beam Positron Emission Tomography

QA t

  • Th. Haberer, Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center
  • QA system
  • ...
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Pre OP

Results

Post OP

dose [%]

Post OP t d b i

chondro sarcoma

rasterscanned carbon ions

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FSRT / IMRT vs FSRT / IMRT+C12 at the locally advanced adenoid-cystic carzinoma advanced adenoid cystic carzinoma

acute toxicity acceptable survival local control

Schulz-Ertner, Cancer 2005

  • Th. Haberer

y p late toxicity > CTC Grad 2 < 5%

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Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center

  • compact design
  • full clinical integration

full clinical integration

  • rasterscanning only
  • low-LET modality:

Protons (later He)

  • high LET modality:
  • high-LET modality:

Carbon (Oxygen)

  • ion selection within

minutes ld id fi t

  • world-wide first

scanning ion gantry

  • > 1000 patients/year

> 15.000 fractions/year

  • Th. Haberer, Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center
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Germany: Ion Facility of the Heidelberg Some Facts

  • Effective area 5.027 m²
  • Concrete 30.000 tons
  • Constructional steel

7 500 tons Start of construction: November 2003 Completion of building and acc.: June 2006 First patient planned: early in 2009

  • Constructional steel 7.500 tons
  • Capital Investment 100 M€

p p y Project Partners: Project Partners:

  • University pays, owns and
  • perates the facility

GSI built the accelerator

  • GSI built the accelerator
  • Siemens supplies all components

related to patient environment GSI, DKFZ, … are research partners

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HIT / General Requirements

  • ions

: p

3He2+ 12C6 16O8+

  • energies (MeV/u)

: 48 72 88 102 (255 steps)

  • 220
  • 330
  • 430
  • 430

(255 steps)

  • 220
  • 330
  • 430 -430
  • beam spot size

: 4 - 10 mm (2d-gaussian) ( 4 steps)

  • treatment caves : 3 (2 horizontal, 1 iso-centric gantry)
  • QA and research : 1 (1 horizontal)
  • Th. Haberer, Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center
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RBE for fractionated RT of gut crypt cells of mice (Berkeley)

H, Li, C, N, O ?

g yp ( y)

Proton data: Tepper et al. 1977, Ion data: Goldstein et al. 1981

Which Ion is optimal: Li, C, N, O ? And: for which clinical indication ?

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Injector j

RFQ + IH-DTL Ion sources

  • Th. Haberer, Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center
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high energy beam transport synchrotron

  • Th. Haberer, Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center
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Medical Equipment

Identical patient positioning systems

  • fixed beam
  • gantry

Workflow optimization

  • automated QA

procedures

  • automated patient

hand over from shuttle

  • treatment chair

I iti Inroom position verification

  • 2D
  • 3D Cone beam CT

Open for future applications and workflows

  • Th. Haberer, Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center
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Patient Positioning

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Status & Next Steps

preliminary scanner commissioning result Protons@maximum energy recorded in a verification film @ gy no feedback loops for beam intensity or position (courtesy S.O. Grözinger et al., Siemens Medical Solutions)

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Motivation Gantry Gantry

Advantage of a rotating beamline

Pancreas, supine position via gantry advantageous

  • Th. Haberer
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Scanning Ion Gantry

  • optimum dose

application ld id fi t

  • world-wide first

ion gantry

  • world-wide first

integration

  • f beam scanning
  • 13m diameter
  • 13m diameter

25m length 600to overall weight 0,5mm max. deformation

  • prototype segment

tested at GSI MT Mechatronics

  • Th. Haberer, Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center

MT Aerospace

tested at GSI MT Mechatronics

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Mounting

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Gantry / Medtech

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Gantry: first beam at the at the isocenter

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PARTNER: Simulation and Dosimetry

15 M1 Customisation and integration of the FLUKA MC code M6 Milestone: 15-M1 Customisation and integration of the FLUKA MC code in the UKL-HD (HIT) research planning platform for dose calculations of scanned ion beams in water and patient- or phantom-CTs M6 Milestone: Integration of the FLUKA Monte Carlo code in the research planning platform for planning platform for scanned ion beams at UKL-HD (HIT) 15-M2 15 D2 Experimental validation by means of dosimetric measurements in homogeneous and heterogeneous M12 Milestone: Experimental 15-D2 measurements in homogeneous and heterogeneous phantoms at UKL-HD (HIT) Experimental validation Deliverable: Report 15-D1 Development of workflow-efficient analysis tools for comparison of MC and analytical treatment plan calculations M18 Deliverable: Report 15 D2 Intercomparison between MC and analytical treatment M24 Deliverable: Report 15-D2 Intercomparison between MC and analytical treatment plan calculations in a representative number of challenging real clinical situations (e.g., in the presence

  • f tissue/air interfaces and metallic implants, dose to

water/tissue ) M24 Deliverable: Report water/tissue…)

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12C Reference Plan

Proton Plans ISO@140cm ISO@140cm ISO@80cm ISO@80cm

Calculations done with TRiP98 and TRiP98Beam (S B K P di) (S. Brons, K. Parodi)

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PARTNER: Clinical Studies, Epidemiology and Patient Selection Epidemiology and Patient Selection

2-M1 Effectiveness of carbon ions therapy m3 Specification 2-M2 Correct definition of treatment volumes & precise patient setup m6 Report 2-D1 Preliminary results: LC and early toxicity m6 Report 2-M3 Target definition for treatment m12 Protocol 2-M4 Technique for data analysis selected m21 Protocol 2-D2 Experimental data analysed m24 Report 2-D3 Preliminary results: LC, DFS, OS, and late toxicity and relationship with dose fractionation and Final Report m24 Report 2-D4 Clinical validation of biological input parameters m30 Report 2-D5 Cost-effectiveness analysis m36 Report

Courtesy S. Combs

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PARTNER: Clinical Studies, Epidemiology and Patient Selection Epidemiology and Patient Selection

2-M1 Refine epidemiological date for indication for ion therapy m6 Milestone 2-D1 Comparison of data on photon proton and ion therapy m12 Report 2 M2 D l li i l i l f ifi i di i 18 P l 2-M2 Develop clinical trial of specific indication m18 Protocol 2-D2 Report on the analysis of the data on P2-M2 m36 Report

Courtesy S. Combs

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Preparatory Work

carbon ion therapy for chondrosarcomas at the base of the skull

local control 96.2% / 89.8% at 3 / 4 years, n=54 failure: n=1 in-field 5-year OS 98.2% failure: n=1 in-field n=1 border Courtesy S. Combs

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Goals of this planned trial: Goals of this planned trial: Optimized therapy of chordomas and chondrosarcomas at the base of the skull at the base of the skull Comparison: high-dose proton vs carbon ion treatment, p g p , monitor localc control, overall survival and toxicity (phase III trial) Establish a common protocol Other trials are under way (pancreas, prostate, …)

Courtesy S. Combs, J. Debus, K. Herfarth, M. Münter

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Organ motion and beam scanning

4DCT lung tumor 4DCT lung tumor

Courtesy by E. Rietzel (MGH) and C. Bert (GSI)

Organ motion + with beam scanning leads to interplay effects

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Thank you for your attention !