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48th Meeting of the Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group

Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG)

28.09. - 03.10.2009, Heidelberg

Development of raster scanning system at NIRS-HIMAC

Meeting Abstract

  • T. Furukawa - Reserch Center for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan
  • T. Inaniwa - Reserch Center for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan
  • S. Sato - Reserch Center for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan
  • N. Saotome - Reserch Center for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan
  • K. Noda - Reserch Center for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

PTCOG 48. Meeting of the Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group. Heidelberg, 28.09.-03.10.2009. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2009. Doc09ptcog068

doi: 10.3205/09ptcog068, urn:nbn:de:0183-09ptcog0687

Published: September 24, 2009

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Outline

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A new treatment facility project, as an extension of the existing HIMAC facility, has been initiated for the further development of carbon-ion therapy in NIRS. This new treatment facility will be equipped with a 3D irradiation system with pencil beam scanning. The challenge of this project is to realize treatment of a moving target by scanning irradiation. To accomplish practical moving target irradiation and to fix the final design, a prototype of the scanning irradiation system was constructed and installed into existing HIMAC experiment course. The system and the status of the beam test are described.