Therapy at HIMAC
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The HIMAC (Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba) facility is the first heavy-ion synchrotron complex dedicated to medical use in a hospital environment. As a part of ‘the Comprehensive 10-year Strategy for Cancer Control’ begun by the Japanese Government in 1984, the project for construction of the HIMAC was carried out at National Institute of Radiological sciences (NIRS), Science and Technology Agency. In November of 1993, the construction of the entire facility was completed and in June 1994 the first patient was treated with 290 MeV/u carbon-ions. The aim of our heavy-ion clinical trials on various type of malignancies is to establish clinical advantages of heavy-ion in cancer treatment.
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Status of the HIMAC Injector
At NIRS-HIMAC, by the end of July 2000, 837 patients have already been treated using carbon beams. One of the recent developments is a smaller number of fractionation. Actual fractionation is 4 times per week for Liver, and is 9 times per 3 weeks for Lung. The required beam intensity has thus increased up to 300 eμA of C at the source and 2×10 pps of C at the isocenter. Furthermore, since the i...
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HIMAC, Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba, has been in operation for about 8 years. The control system of HIMAC synchrotron is now undergoing renewal and upgrade. As a medical accelerator in use, reliability and availability of the beam must not be compromised in HIMAC. We decided to change most computers of the system in a node-by-node way, over a couple of years. Among the replaced are: P...
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تاریخ انتشار 1996