Author: Furukawa, T.
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THPPR047 Design of Superconducting Rotating-gantry for Heavy-ion Therapy 4080
 
  • Y. Iwata, T. Furukawa, A. I. Itano, K. Mizushima, S. Mori, K. Noda, T. Shirai
    NIRS, Chiba-shi, Japan
  • N. Amemiya
    Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • T. Fujimoto
    AEC, Chiba, Japan
  • T.F. Fujita
    National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan
  • T. Obana
    NIFS, Gifu, Japan
  • T. Ogitsu
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • T. Orikasa, S.T. Takami, S. Takayama, I. Watanabe
    Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan
 
  We designed a superconducting rotating-gantry for heavy-ion therapy. This isocentric rotating-gantry can transport heavy ions having 430 MeV/u to the isocenter with irradiation angles between 0-360 degrees, and further has the capability of our fast raster-scanning irradiation, as employed in the existing fixed-irradiation-ports. For the magnets, combined-function superconducting-magnets will be employed. The use of these superconducting magnets allowed us to design the compact gantry, while keeping a sufficient scan size at the isocenter; the length and radius of the gantry would be approximately 13m and 5.5m, respectively, which are comparable to those of the existing proton gantries. Superconducting coils were designed by using the 3D field solver, so as to obtain uniform field distributions. The two superconducting magnets are being constructed. We will present the design of the superconducting gantry as well as details of the superconducting magnets.