@inproceedings{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00054379,
 author = {Noda, Kouji and 野田 耕司},
 book = {The Journal of Physiological Sciences},
 issue = {Suppl-1},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {The first clinical trial with a carbon-ion beam generated from HIMAC was conducted in June 1994. The total number of patients treated was about 6,500 as of August 2012. The impressive advance of carbon-ion therapy using HIMAC has been supported by high-reliability operation and by the developments of accelerator and beam-delivery technologies. Based on more than ten years of experience with HIMAC, we carried out design studies and R&D works toward a standard carbon-ion radiotherapy facility downsized from the HIMAC. As a result, collaborating NIRS with Gunma University, a pilot facility was constructed at Gunma University, and the treatments have carried out successfully since March 2010. On the other hand, NIRS proposed a new treatment research facility for the further development of radiotherapy with HIMAC, based on the pencil-beam 3D scanning. On the basis of the design study and the related R&D work, the new treatment research facility was constructed, as an extension of the existing one. The treatments have been successfully carried out with a pencil-beam 3D scanning since May 2011. As a future plan, we have developed a superconducting rotating gantry, and we are going to just start a study of a superconducting accelerator for the ion radiotherapy. The status and future plan of the heavy-ion cancer radiotherapy HIMAC is reported.},
 pages = {S66--S66},
 title = {Status and Future Plan of Heavy-Ion Cancer Radiotherapy Facility HIMAC},
 volume = {63},
 year = {2013}
}