Recent Innovations in Carbon-Ion Radiotherapy
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- MINOHARA Shinichi
- Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics, Research Center for Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences
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- FUKUDA Shigekazu
- Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics, Research Center for Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences
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- KANEMATSU Nobuyuki
- Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics, Research Center for Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences
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- TAKEI Yuka
- Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics, Research Center for Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences
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- FURUKAWA Takuji
- Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics, Research Center for Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences
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- INANIWA Taku
- Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics, Research Center for Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences
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- MATSUFUJI Naruhiro
- Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics, Research Center for Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences
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- MORI Shinichiro
- Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics, Research Center for Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences
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- NODA Koji
- Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics, Research Center for Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences
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Abstract
In the last few years, hospital-based facilities for carbon-ion radiotherapy are being constructed and proposed in Europe and Asia. During the next few years, several new facilities will be opened for carbon-ion radiotherapy in the world. These facilities in operation or under construction are categorized in two types by the beam shaping method used. One is the passive beam shaping method that is mainly improved and systematized for routine clinical use at HIMAC, Japan. The other method is active beam shaping which is also known as beam scanning adopted at GSI/HIT, Germany. In this paper an overview of some technical aspects for beam shaping is reported. The technique of passive beam shaping is established for stable clinical application and has clinical result of over 4000 patients in HIMAC. In contrast, clinical experience of active beam shaping is about 400 patients, and there is no clinical experience to respiratory moving target. A great advantage of the active beam shaping method is patient-specific collimator-less and compensator-less treatment. This may be an interesting potential for adaptive radiotherapy.
Journal
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- Journal of Radiation Research
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Journal of Radiation Research 51 (4), 385-392, 2010
Journal of Radiation Research Editorial Committee
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390282680193679488
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- NII Article ID
- 10026563764
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- NII Book ID
- AA00705792
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- ISSN
- 13499157
- 04493060
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- NDL BIB ID
- 10766017
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- NDL
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- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed