Published October 1995
| Version v1
Report
Present status of the medical accelerator HIMAC
Creators
- 1. National Inst. of Radiological Sciences, Chiba (Japan)
Description
Clinical study of cancer treatment has been going on since June 21, 1994 with HIMAC at NIRS. More than 50 patients have been treated with high energy carbon beams until August 4, 1995. The preliminary results look excellent as expected: very light damage on skin surface and remarkable effects on cancer cells. HIMAC is operated day and night from 7 p.m. on Monday till 7 p.m. on Saturday for the clinical treatment and for basic experiments. About 1,500 hr. per year are used by clinical trials and 2,500 hr. is open for physical and biomedical users including researchers outside NIRS. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the 10th symposium on accelerator science and technology
- Imprint Pagination
- 490 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 5-7.
- Report number
- JAERI-Conf--95-021
Conference
- Title
- 10. symposium on accelerator science and technology.
- Dates
- 25-27 Oct 1995.
- Place
- Hitachinaka, Ibaraki (Japan).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Japan
- Country of Input or Organization
- Japan
- INIS RN
- 27044805
- Subject category
- S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CARBON IONS; CARCINOMAS; COMPUTERIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS; HEAVY IONS; HIMAC ACCELERATOR; MEV RANGE 100-1000; OPERATION; PATIENTS; RADIOTHERAPY; THERAPEUTIC USES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; ANIMALS; CHARGED PARTICLES; CONTROL SYSTEMS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; DISEASES; ENERGY RANGE; HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS; IONS; MAMMALS; MAN; MEDICINE; MEV RANGE; NEOPLASMS; ON-LINE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ON-LINE SYSTEMS; PRIMATES; SYNCHROTRONS; THERAPY; USES; VERTEBRATES