Published March 2004 | Version v1
Report

Operation of medical accelerator PATRO at Hyogo Ion Beam Medical Center

  • 1. Hyogo Ion Beam Medical Center, Hyogo (Japan)
  • 2. Mitsubishi Electric Co., Kobe, Hyogo (Japan)
  • 3. Accelerator Engineering Co., Hyogo (Japan)

Description

PATRO (Particle Accelerator for Therapy, Radiology and Oncology) is a medical accelerator facility for hadrontherapy of cancer at Hyogo Ion Beam Medical Center (HIBMC). Beam particles are proton (230 MeV) and carbon (320 MeV/u). After the beam commissioning and the tuning of irradiation system in 2000, we performed the clinical trials with proton and carbon beams from May 2001 until July 2002. We operated the accelerator for about 11,000 hours since the beginning of the beam tuning until the end of the clinical trials and for about 5,000 hours during the clinical trials. No serious troubles happened during the clinical trials. The stability and the reproducibility of the beams were well proved. (author)

Part of:
Proceedings of the 4th workshop on accelerator operation: WAO 2003

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Proceedings of the 4th workshop on accelerator operation: WAO 2003
Imprint Pagination
177 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 30-32
Report number
KEK-PROC--2003-19

Conference

Title
WAO 2003
Acronym
4. workshop on accelerator operation
Dates
10-14 Mar 2003
Place
Hayama, Kanagawa (Japan); Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)

INIS

Country of Publication
Japan
Country of Input or Organization
Japan
INIS RN
35098126
Subject category
S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
ACCELERATOR FACILITIES; CARBON; CLINICAL TRIALS; MEV RANGE 100-1000; OPERATION; PROTON BEAMS; RADIOTHERAPY; STABILITY; START-UP; SYNCHROTRONS
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; BEAMS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; ELEMENTS; ENERGY RANGE; MEDICINE; MEV RANGE; NONMETALS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; NUCLEON BEAMS; PARTICLE BEAMS; RADIOLOGY; TESTING; THERAPY

Optional Information

Notes
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