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HIMAC: A New Start for Heavy Ions

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In 1994, carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT) was initiated at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) in Japan using the Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC), which was the world’s first heavy ion accelerator complex dedicated to medical use. Among several types of ion species, carbon ions were chosen for cancer therapy because they were presumed to possess optimal properties in terms of biologically effective dose localization.

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  1. National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Research Center of Charged Particle Therapy, Anagawa 4-9-1, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan

    Tadashi Kamada & Hirohiko Tsujii

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    Ute Linz

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Kamada, T., Tsujii, H. (2012). HIMAC: A New Start for Heavy Ions. In: Linz, U. (eds) Ion Beam Therapy. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, vol 320. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21414-1_36

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