日本千叶县医疗用重离子加速器(HIMAC)的现状和将来.pdfVIP

物理專文 日本千葉縣醫療用重離子加速器 (HIMAC)的現狀和將來 文/ Koji NODA (野田 耕司) 、Masami TORIKOSHI (取越 正己) 譯者/ 鄭伯昆 facility for cost reduction. Based on the design and RD ( 此 篇 是 刊 登 在 日 本 『 加 速 器 』 雜 誌 studies for the proposed facility, its construction was (Vol.4,No.2,2—7) 的文章，感謝此雜誌的發行人日本 begun at Gunma University in April 2006. In addition, 加速器科學學會及原著者 Koji NODA (野田 耕司) our future plans for HIMAC also include the design of a and Masami TORIKOSHI (取越 正己)等的同意翻譯 new treatment facility. 此篇文章並刊登到物理双月刊。 在翻譯此篇文章時發 現有不少日本特有的專門名詞，因跨越醫學、物理、 The design work has already been initiated, and will 工程相當困難做更深一層的詔知，有的需要花些時間 lead to the further development of therapy using HIMAC. 瞭解。但現在我國已知有三私人機構在進行計劃或購 The report describes the status of HIMAC and a 置，基於此情勢本人決定盡快發表此文。因此可能有 summary account of the new accelerator facility for 些翻譯此文時不完善的地方，將來有機會時將做補充。 cancer therapy with carbon ions and of the new treatment facility at HIMAC. Abstract The first clinical trial with carbon beams generated 一、前言 from the HIMAC accelerator was conducted in June1994. The total number of patients treated as of February 2007 我國( 日本)的癌症死亡人年年增加，到了 1981 年 was in excess of 3,178. In view of the significant 以後它已成為日人死因的第一位，而現在每年的死亡 growth in the number of protocols, the Japanese 人數已超過 30 萬人。 為了改善此狀況，由 1984 年開 government gave its appr