Design study of a rotating gantry for the HIMAC new treatment facility

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 266, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2186-2189

  Furukawa, T ^a   Inaniwa, T ^a   Sato, S ^a   Iwata, Y ^a   Fujimoto, T ^a   Minohara, S ^a   Noda, K ^a   Kanai, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heavy ion therapy; Rotating gantry; Scanning irradiation

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); HEAVY IONS; MAGNETS; RADIOTHERAPY; ROTATING MACHINERY; SCANNING;

HEAVY-ION THERAPY; ROTATING GANTRY; SCANNING IRRADIATION;

GANTRY CRANES;

EID: 44449149670     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2008.02.078     Document Type: Article

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