A Hospital-Based Hadrontherapy Complex

The main design issues of the feasibility study for a hospital-based hadrontherapy facility to be built in Italy (Progetto Adroterapia) are described. The facility will aim at the treatment of 1000 patients/year in 5 treatment rooms served by a H-/light ion synchrotron. Generation of neutron beams for boron neutron capture therapy and production of positron emitting radionuclides for PET diagnostics is also foreseen. Two of the treatment rooms will be equipped with a rotating isocentric irradiation unit.