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Adjustment procedure for beam alignment in scanned ion-beam therapy
Control of the beam position for three-dimensional pencil-beam scanning is important because the position accuracy of the beam significantly impacts the alignment of the irradiation field. To suppress this eff...
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Open AccessTop–down assessment of the Asian carbon budget since the mid 1990s
Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is the principal driver of anthropogenic climate change. Asia is an important region for the global carbon budget, with 4 of the world’s 10 largest national emitters of...
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Surgical treatment for pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis using iodine-supported spinal instruments: initial case series of 14 patients
Reports have detailed the increasing use of spinal instrumentation in the treatment of pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis, with the aims of achieving a lower pseudoarthrosis rate and restoring spinal alignment. ...
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Beam spot imaging system using a fluorescent screen for carbon-ion radiotherapy
A two-dimensional (2D) beam imaging system with a fluorescent intensifying screen and high-speed charge-coupled device (CCD) camera was developed to observe the fluctuations of the beam position and size. This...
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Performance of a fluorescent screen with a CCD system for quality assurance in a heavy-ion beam scanning irradiation system
A two-dimensional dosimetry system was developed for the quality assurance (QA) of therapeutic scanned ion beams at Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC). This system consists of a fluorescent screen ...
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Approach to Ultralow Ion-Beam Temperatures by Beam Cooling
“Stochastic cooling” invented based on the requirement from particle physics to create vector bosons by proton–antiproton collision, has attained the reduction of beam emittance in 6 dimensional phase space. “...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
TeV Gamma Ray Survey on the Direction of Fermi-LAT Pulsars with the Tibet Air Shower Array
We search for steady TeV γ-rays from 18 pulsars in the Fermi-LAT pulsar catalog using the Tibet air shower array. We observe 8 sources including the Crab against expected 0.41 sources at a significance of 2σ or m...
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Influence of the liquid-phase component on a microwave sintering process
Sintering of barium titanate by microwave heating with barium borate as a liquid-phase forming material was examined as a means of saving energy. A liquid phase was generated faster and over a wider temperatur...
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Suppressive effects of antiandrogens, finasteride and flutamide on development of prostatic lesions in a transgenic rat model
Transgenic (TG) rats bearing a probasin promoter/simian virus 40 T antigen (SV40 Tag) construct were treated with antiandrogens to examine their ability to suppress prostate carcinogenesis. Finasteride and flu...
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Underground water Cherenkov muon detector array with the Tibet air shower array for gamma-ray astronomy in the 100 TeV region
We propose to build a large water-Cherenkov-type muon-detector array (Tibet MD array) around the 37 000 m2 Tibet air shower array (Tibet AS array) already constructed at 4300 m above sea level in Tibet, China. E...
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Mental fatigue-induced decrease in levels of several plasma amino acids
To investigate the relation between plasma amino acid levels and mental fatigue, we measured the plasma concentrations of 20 amino acids in 9 healthy volunteers before and after a fatigue-inducing mental task ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Underground water Cherenkov muon detector array with the Tibet air shower array for gamma-ray astronomy in the 100 TeV region
We propose to build a large water-Cherenkov-type muon-detector array (Tibet MD array) around the 37 000 m2 Tibet air shower array (Tibet AS array) already constructed at 4300 m above sea level in Tibet, China. Ea...
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Genetic control of the spontaneous activation of CD4+ Th cells in systemic lupus erythematosus-prone (NZB × NZW) F1 mice
The F1 hybrid of autoimmune hemolytic anemia-prone NZB and nonautoimmune NZW strains of mice has been studied as a murine model of systemic lupus erythematosus. Both NZB and F1 hybrid mice show age-dependent spon...
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Enhancement of high energy proton yield with a polystyrene-coated metal target driven by a high-intensity femtosecond laser
We present experimental results on protons accelerated up to 950 keV from a 3-μm thick tantalum foil with a 133-nm thick polystyrene layer on its rear surface, irradiated with a laser pulse having the duration...
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Phase rotation scheme of laser-produced ions for reduction of the energy spread
In order to widely spread out particle beams utilized in cancer therapy, laser-produced ions are developed as the injection beam for an ion synchrotron dedicated for cancer therapy. Such a laser ion source is ...
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Blood-pressure-lowering effect of a novel fermented milk containing γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in mild hypertensives
Objective: To study the effect of a new fermented milk product containing GABA (FMG) on the blood pressure (BP) of patients with mild hypertension.
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Cryogenic, superconducting and rf results of the SRFQ2 of PIAVE
SRFQ2 is the second RFQ superconducting (SC) structure of PIAVE, the positive ion injector of the SC LINAC for heavy ions ALPI, in operation at Legnaro.
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Open AccessDown-regulation of Lsm1 is involved in human prostate cancer progression
Elucidation of genetic alterations is an approach to understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms of progression of human prostate cancers. We have searched for genes differentially expressed in advanced ...
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Liver, Gallbladder, and Exocrine Pancreas
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Promoting effects of antiandrogenic agents on rat ventral prostate carcinogenesis induced by 3,2′-dimethyl-4-aminobiphenyl (DMAB)
The objective of this study was to determine the effects of androgen depletion by 5α-reductase inhibitor (eg epristeride), pure antiandrogen (eg casodex) or C17-20 lyase inhibitor (eg YM116) on rat prostate ca...
