TY - JOUR
T1 - A proton therapy system in Nagoya Proton Therapy Center
AU - Toshito, Toshiyuki
AU - Omachi, Chihiro
AU - Kibe, Yoshiaki
AU - Sugai, Hiroyuki
AU - Hayashi, Kensuke
AU - Shibata, Hiroki
AU - Yasui, Keisuke
AU - Tanaka, Kenichiro
AU - Yamamoto, Takahiro
AU - Yoshida, Atsushi
AU - Nikawa, Eiki
AU - Asai, Kumiko
AU - Shimomura, Akira
AU - Okumura, Ikuyo
AU - Suzuki, Toshinori
AU - Kinou, Hideto
AU - Isoyama, Shigeru
AU - Ogino, Hiroyuki
AU - Iwata, Hiromitsu
AU - Shibamoto, Yuta
AU - Mizoe, Jun’etsu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine.
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - The purpose of this paper is to describe an outline of a proton therapy system in Nagoya Proton Therapy Center (NPTC). The NPTC has a synchrotron with a linac injector and three treatment rooms: two rooms are equipped with a gantry and the other one is equipped with a fixed horizontal beamline. One gantry treatment room has a pencil beam scanning treatment delivery nozzle. The other two treatment rooms have a passive scattering treatment delivery nozzle. In the scanning treatment delivery nozzle, an energy absorber and an aperture system to treat head and neck cancer have been equipped. In the passive treatment delivery nozzle, a multi-leaf collimator is equipped. We employ respiratory gating to treat lung and liver cancers for passive irradiation. The proton therapy system passed all acceptance tests. The first patient was treated on February 25, 2013, using passive scattering fixed beams. Respiratory gating is commonly used to treat lung and liver cancers in the passive scattering system. The MLCs are our first choice to limit the irradiation field. The use of the aperture for scanning irradiation reduced the lateral fall off by half or less. The energy absorber and aperture system in scanning delivery is beneficial to treat head and neck cancer.
AB - The purpose of this paper is to describe an outline of a proton therapy system in Nagoya Proton Therapy Center (NPTC). The NPTC has a synchrotron with a linac injector and three treatment rooms: two rooms are equipped with a gantry and the other one is equipped with a fixed horizontal beamline. One gantry treatment room has a pencil beam scanning treatment delivery nozzle. The other two treatment rooms have a passive scattering treatment delivery nozzle. In the scanning treatment delivery nozzle, an energy absorber and an aperture system to treat head and neck cancer have been equipped. In the passive treatment delivery nozzle, a multi-leaf collimator is equipped. We employ respiratory gating to treat lung and liver cancers for passive irradiation. The proton therapy system passed all acceptance tests. The first patient was treated on February 25, 2013, using passive scattering fixed beams. Respiratory gating is commonly used to treat lung and liver cancers in the passive scattering system. The MLCs are our first choice to limit the irradiation field. The use of the aperture for scanning irradiation reduced the lateral fall off by half or less. The energy absorber and aperture system in scanning delivery is beneficial to treat head and neck cancer.
KW - Proton therapy
KW - Proton therapy facilities
KW - Proton therapy physics
KW - Proton therapy technology
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U2 - 10.1007/s13246-016-0456-8
DO - 10.1007/s13246-016-0456-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 27271800
AN - SCOPUS:84987888920
SN - 0158-9938
VL - 39
SP - 645
EP - 654
JO - Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine
JF - Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine
IS - 3
ER -
