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Proceedings of the 8th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (August 1-3, 2011, Tsukuba, Japan) CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF COMPACT SYNCHROTRON FOR CARBON ION THERAPY Fumiaki Noda #, Takahiro Yamada, Kazuo Hiramoto Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Research Laboratory 7-2-1 Omika-cho, Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki, 319-1221 Abstract Hitachi has been developing the proton beam therapy system using scanning irradiation method. On the other hand, recently, the needs