@misc{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00071967,
 author = {Iwata, Yoshiyuki and Fujimoto, Tetsuya and Matsuba, Shunya and Fujita, Takashi and Sato, Shinji and Furukawa, Takuji and Hara, Yousuke and Mizushima, Kota and Saraya, Yuichi and Tansho, Ryohei and Shirai, Toshiyuki and Noda, Koji and 岩田 佳之 and 松葉 俊哉 and 藤田 敬 and 佐藤 眞二 and 古川 卓司 and 原 洋介 and 水島 康太 and 皿谷 有一 and 丹正 亮平 and 白井 敏之 and 野田 耕司},
 month = {Jul},
 note = {A superconducting rotating-gantry for carbon radiotherapy was developed. This isocentric rotating gantry can transport carbon ions with the maximum energy of 430 MeV/u to an isocenter with irradiation angles of over ±180 degrees, and is further capable of performing three-dimensional raster-scanning irradiation. The combined-function superconducting magnets were employed for the rotating gantry. The superconducting magnets with optimized beam optics allowed a compact gantry design with a large scan size at the isocenter; the length and the radius of the gantry are approximately 13 and 5.5 m, respectively, which are comparable to those for the existing proton gantries. The total weight of the gantry was estimated to be approximately 300 tons, which is roughly half of the existing gantry for carbon radiotherapy. A construction of the gantry structure begun by 2014, and the installation of the entire gantry system to the Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC) complex at National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) completed by the end of September, 2015. Beam turning begun by October, 2015, and carbon beams, as accelerated by the HIMAC synchrotron, having maximum energy of 430 MeV/u are transported with the rotating gantry to the isocenter. The size and shape of the beam spots at the isocenter were finely tuned over various combinations of the beam energies and the gantry angle. We will present the recent progress as well as the current status of the superconducting rotating-gantry., The 12th European Conference on Accelerators in Applied Research and Technology (ECAART12)},
 title = {Recent progress of a superconducting rotating-gantry for carbon radiotherapy},
 year = {2016}
}