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NIRS scanning system, present status and future prospects
A new treatment facility as an extension of the existing HIMAC facility, is constructed for the further development of carbon-ion therapy in NIRS. This new treatment facility is 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. Thus, to realize this, the development of the fast scanning system is one of the most important issues in this project. After the installation of the scanning system, the commissioning of NIRS fast scanning system was started in September 2010. After intense commissioning and quality assurance tests, the treatment with scanned ion beam was started in May 2011. This paper describes the present status and future prospects of the NIRS scanning system2nd NIRS-ETOILE Joint Symposium on Carbon Ion Therap
Development of raster scanning system at NIRS-HIMAC
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.48th Meeting of the Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG48
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