Development of Precise Magnetic Field Shimming Algorithm for Inclined 45° Continuous Cutting on Spiral Pole of SC Cyclotron

Abstract

China Institute of Atomic Energy has developed a 230 MeV compact superconducting cyclotron CYCIAE-230 to meet the demands of proton therapy in China. Physical design requires a strict control of the average field error and first harmonic in the main field. A processing method of inclined 45° continuous cutting on the two pole sides is at the first time proposed to shim the field in compact superconducting cyclotron. For a spiral magnet pole, the field generated by the 45° continuous cutting on edges is relatively complicated to be calculated precisely by finite element method. In this paper, the analytical model of the linear equation for field shimming calculation is established. The shape function caused by the local cutting is solved by the magnetic saturation approximation. And then the shimming process is built with an iterative procedure based on the ridge regression method. The shimming algorithm is applied in CYCIAE-230, which achieve good results to reduce the shimming times and further the construction period. The process of the shimming algorithm and the corresponding shimming effect in CYCIAE-230 will be presented in detail.