Commissioning and performance of the HIMAC medical accelerator

Author

Yamada, S.

Author_Institution

Res. Center of Heavy Ion Therapy, Nat. Inst. of Radiol. Sci., Chiba, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

1-5 May 1995

Firstpage

9

Abstract

Heavy ions show the excellent dose concentration especially at a position located deep in a human body. This character of heavy ions are well suited for the medical treatment of the cancer. A heavy ion synchrotron complex, HIMAC, has been constructed at NIRS for this purpose. The HIMAC accelerator consists of an injector linac, a couple of synchrotron rings, long and complicated beam transport lines, three treatment rooms and four experimental rooms. The maximum energy of the synchrotron is determined so that the residual range of silicon ions exceeds 30 cm in water. The clinical trials of the cancer treatment started on June 21 using a 290 MeV/u carbon beam, and 21 patients were treated by the end of February 1995

Keywords

beam handling equipment; biomedical equipment; ion accelerators; particle beam injection; radiation therapy; synchrotrons; HIMAC medical accelerator performance; Si; beam transport lines; cancer; clinical trials; commissioning; experimental rooms; heavy ion synchrotron complex; human body; injector linac; medical treatment; radiation therapy; residual range; synchrotron rings; treatment rooms; Acceleration; Cancer; Humans; Ion accelerators; Linear particle accelerator; Medical treatment; Optical coupling; Particle beams; Silicon; Synchrotrons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the 1995

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2934-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1995.504557

Filename

504557