IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Itano, A. I.)

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THPS074	Design of Superconducting Rotating-gantry for Heavy-ion Therapy	3601
	Y. Iwata, T. Furukawa, A. I. Itano, K. Mizushima, K. Noda, T. Shirai NIRS, Chiba-shi, Japan N. Amemiya KUEE, Kyoto, Japan T. Obana NIFS, Gifu, Japan T. Ogitsu KEK, Ibaraki, Japan T. Tosaka, I. Watanabe Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan M. Yoshimoto JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
	Tumor therapy using energetic carbon ions, as provided by the HIMAC, has been performed since June 1994, and more than 5000 patients were treated until now. With the successful clinical results, we constructed a new treatment facility. The new facility has three treatment rooms; two of them have both horizontal and vertical fixed-irradiation-ports, and the other has a rotating-gantry-port. For all the ports, a scanning-irradiation method is applied. The fixed-irradiation-ports were constructed and commissioned, and we are now designing the rotating gantry. This isocentric rotating-gantry can transport heavy ions having 430 MeV/u to the isocenter with irradiation angles of 0-360 degrees. For the magnets, combined-function superconducting-magnets will be employed. The use of the superconducting magnets allowed us to design the compact gantry; the length and radius of the gantry would be approximately 12m and 5m, which are comparable to those of the existing proton gantries. A part of the superconducting magnets will be constructed within this fiscal year. The design of the rotating gantry, including the beam optics as well as details of the superconducting magnets, will be presented.

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Design of Superconducting Rotating-gantry for Heavy-ion Therapy

3601

Y. Iwata, T. Furukawa, A. I. Itano, K. Mizushima, K. Noda, T. Shirai
NIRS, Chiba-shi, Japan
N. Amemiya
KUEE, Kyoto, Japan
T. Obana
NIFS, Gifu, Japan
T. Ogitsu
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
T. Tosaka, I. Watanabe
Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan
M. Yoshimoto
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan

Tumor therapy using energetic carbon ions, as provided by the HIMAC, has been performed since June 1994, and more than 5000 patients were treated until now. With the successful clinical results, we constructed a new treatment facility. The new facility has three treatment rooms; two of them have both horizontal and vertical fixed-irradiation-ports, and the other has a rotating-gantry-port. For all the ports, a scanning-irradiation method is applied. The fixed-irradiation-ports were constructed and commissioned, and we are now designing the rotating gantry. This isocentric rotating-gantry can transport heavy ions having 430 MeV/u to the isocenter with irradiation angles of 0-360 degrees. For the magnets, combined-function superconducting-magnets will be employed. The use of the superconducting magnets allowed us to design the compact gantry; the length and radius of the gantry would be approximately 12m and 5m, which are comparable to those of the existing proton gantries. A part of the superconducting magnets will be constructed within this fiscal year. The design of the rotating gantry, including the beam optics as well as details of the superconducting magnets, will be presented.