Commissioning of the MedAustron injector for carbon ion treatment beams

MedAustron is a synchrotron based hadron therapy center. The design based on the PIMMS (Proton Ion Medical Machine Study) uses proton and carbon ions. The facility features 4 irradiation rooms. Three rooms are dedicated to clinical operation and one room is dedicated to non-clinical research. A 7 MeV/u beam is sent to a 77 m circumference Synchrotron which accelerates the beam to 800 Mev/u providing beams for treatment and research. Patients are already successfully treated with protons since December 2016. In parallel, the carbon ion beam commissioning is ongoing, aiming for first treatments in 2018.