Beam monitor system for high-energy beam transportation at HIMAC

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 435, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 326-338

  Torikoshi, M ^a   Noda, K ^a   Takada, E ^a   Kanai, T ^a   Yamada, S ^a   Ogawa, H ^b   Okumura, K ^b   Narita, K ^b   Ueda, K ^c   Mizobata, M ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Inage ku   (Japan)

^c MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; CARBON DIOXIDE; HEAVY IONS; ION BEAMS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; ONCOLOGY; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY;

BEAM INTENSITY MONITORS; BEAM PROFILE MONITORS; MEDICAL ACCELERATORS;

PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

EID: 0033308885     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(99)00569-0     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. S. Yamada, Commissioning and performance of the HIMAC medical accelerator, Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE PAC, Dallas, 1995, Vol. 1, pp. 9-13.
2. K. Morita, H. Tsujii, K. Kawachi, Therapy at HIMAC, Proceedings of the 1996 EPAC, Barcelona, 1995, pp. 237-240.
3. J.R. Castro, Treatment of cancer with heavy charged particles, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, February 1991, PUB-5301, 1991.
4. H. Tsujii, S. Morita, T. Miyamoto, J. Mizoe, T. Nakano, T. Kamada, H. Kato, Y. Matsuoka, H. Tsuji, A. Abe, M. Murata, The current status and perspective of heavy-ion therapy, Proceedings of Sixth International Meeting on Progress in Radio-Oncology, Salzburg, Austria, May 1998, pp. 709-721.
5. K. Sato et al., Nucl. Phys. A 588 (1995) 229c.
6. Y. Hirao et al. Heavy ion medical accelerator in Chiba - a design summary and update, HIMAC Report 001, 1992.
7. T. Kanai, K. Kawachi, T. Hiraoka, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 302 (1991) 158.
8. T. Kanai, H. Tomura, N. Matsufuji, S. Minohara, A. Fukumura, T. Hiraoka, Y. Furusawa, N. Miyahara, H. Koyama-Itoh, M. Endo, F. Soga, K. Kawachi, HIMAC beam delivery system - Physical characteristics, Proceedings of XXI PTCOG Meeting, Chiba, 1994, HIMAC Report 008, 1994, pp. 26-31.
9. M. Torikoshi, E. Takada, S. Yamada, H. Ogawa, K. Noda, T. Kohno, J. Matsuura, S. Kobayakawa, F. Sasaki, K. Okumura, S. Namai and Y. Ishikawa, Control system of a high energy beam transport system of HIMAC, Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Accelerator Science and Technology, Hitachi Naka, 1995, pp. 306-308.
10. T.R. Renner, W.T. Chu, Med. Phys. 14 (1987) 825.
11. G.F. Knoll, Radiation Detection and Measurement, 2nd Edition, Wily, New York, 1989.
12. T. Tomitani, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. 100 (1973) 179.
13. G. Stover, K. Fowler, Operating results for the beam profile monitor system currently in use at BEVALAC facility, Proceedings of the 1987 Particle Accelerator Conference, Washington, DC, 1987, pp. 622-624
14. G. Stover, private communication, 1989.
15. ICRU Report 31, Average Energy Required to Produce an Ion Pair, ICRU, Washington, DC, 1979.
16. M. Torikoshi, H. Ogawa, K. Noda, E. Takada, T. Kanai, K. Narita, T. Fukuzumi, T. Kohno, Continuous beam monitoring for charged particle therapy, Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Accelerator Science and Technology, Hitachi Naka, 1995, pp. 139-141.