Published October 1995 | Version v1
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Continuous beam monitoring for charged particle therapy

  • 1. National Inst. of Radiological Sciences, Chiba (Japan)

Description

Continuous beam monitoring can ensure beam stability during beam irradiation for charged particle therapy. It can also detect the beam which is not synchronized with a patient's respiratory in case of treatment of an organ moving with respiratory. A MWPC was adapted to these purposes. It was used in air not to disturb beam. The effective thickness of the MWPC with respect to the beam is only that of wires. Therefore, scattering the beam and losing the energy of the beam in the MWPC is sufficiently small so that they do not affect charged particle therapy. The MWPC was proved to be useful by use for biology experiments. (author)

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Proceedings of the 10th symposium on accelerator science and technology

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Imprint Title
Proceedings of the 10th symposium on accelerator science and technology
Imprint Pagination
490 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 139-141.
Report number
JAERI-Conf--95-021

Conference

Title
10. symposium on accelerator science and technology.
Dates
25-27 Oct 1995.
Place
Hitachinaka, Ibaraki (Japan).

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