ETOILE: THE HADRONTHERAPY PROJECT FOR LYON (FRANCE)

The Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL) took the initiative in 1999 to ask a number of French doctors and physicists to draw up a specification for the creation of a Light Ion Hadrontherapy Centre. Under the auspices of this university and with the support of the local authorities and the Ministry of Research, a preliminary design (1) has been made in collaboration between UCBL, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA/DSM) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS/IN2P3). This project has taken full account of the experimental work carried out in Germany and Japan, and is part of a coordinated European approach, with similar projects developed in Austria, Germany, Italy and Sweden (ENLIGHT network).