2016
DOI: 10.1142/s2010194516602192
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Development of heavy-ion radiotherapy technology with HIMAC

Abstract: Since 1994, HIMAC has carried out clinical studies and treatments for more than 9000 cancer patients with carbon-ion beams. During the first decade of the HIMAC study, a single beamwobbling method, adopted as the HIMAC beam-delivery technique, was improved for treatments of moving tumors and for obtaining more conformal dose distribution. During the second decade, a pencil-beam 3D scanning method has been developed toward an "adaptive cancer treatment" for treatments of both static and moving tumors. A new tre… Show more

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“…Consequently, even for proton beams the gantry has already a size of typically about 10 m (length and diameter). An isocentric gantry in clinical use for heavier ions (up to carbon) requires a diameter of about 13 m and a length of 25 m, which can be reduced by superconducting magnets to a diameter of 11 m and length of 13 m [3].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Consequently, even for proton beams the gantry has already a size of typically about 10 m (length and diameter). An isocentric gantry in clinical use for heavier ions (up to carbon) requires a diameter of about 13 m and a length of 25 m, which can be reduced by superconducting magnets to a diameter of 11 m and length of 13 m [3].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%