New accelerator facility for carbon-ion cancer-therapy

Journal of Radiation Research

Volumn 48, Issue SUPPL. A, 2007, Pages

  Noda, Koji ^a   Furukawa, Takuji ^a   Fujisawa, Takashi ^a   Iwata, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^a   Kanazawa, Mitsutaka ^a   Kitagawa, Atsushi ^a   Komori, Masataka ^a   Minohara, Shinichi ^a   Murakami, Takeshi ^a   Muramatsu, Masayuki ^a   Sato, Shinji ^a   Takei, Yuka ^a   Tashiro, Mutsumi ^b   Torikoshi, Masami ^a   Yamada, Satoru ^b   Yusa, Ken ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon ion cancer therapy; Compact accelerator; Gated irradiation method; Raster scanning; Rotating gantry

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COST REDUCTION; DISEASES; IONS; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCELERATOR FACILITIES; CANCER THERAPY; CARBON ION THERAPY; CARBON IONS; CARBON-ION CANCER THERAPY; COMPACT ACCELERATORS; GATED IRRADIATION METHOD; IRRADIATION METHODS; RASTER SCANNING; ROTATING GANTRY;

CARBON;

CARBON; HEAVY ION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; ION THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CARBON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAVY ION RADIOTHERAPY; HEAVY IONS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34249065923     PISSN: 04493060     EISSN: 13499157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1269/jrr.48.A43     Document Type: Review

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