| Literature DB >> 17441254 |
Takuji Furukawa1, Taku Inaniwa, Shinji Sato, Takehiro Tomitani, Shinichi Minohara, Koji Noda, Tatsuaki Kanai.
Abstract
A project to construct a new treatment facility as an extension of the existing heavy-ion medical accelerator in chiba (HIMAC) facility has been initiated for further development of carbon-ion therapy. The greatest challenge of this project is to realize treatment of a moving target by scanning irradiation. For this purpose, we decided to combine the rescanning technique and the gated irradiation method. To determine how to avoid hot and/or cold spots by the relatively large number of rescannings within an acceptable irradiation time, we have studied the scanning strategy, scanning magnets and their control, and beam intensity dynamic control. We have designed a raster scanning system and carried out a simulation of irradiating moving targets. The result shows the possibility of practical realization of moving target irradiation with pencil beam scanning. We describe the present status of our design study of the raster scanning system for the HIMAC new treatment facility.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17441254 DOI： 10.1118/1.2558213
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Med Phys ISSN： 0094-2405 Impact factor: 4.071