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Basic research related to heavy-ion cancer therapy has been done at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP), Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1995. Now a plan of clinical trial with heavy ions has been launched at IMP. First, superficially placed tumor treatment with heavy ions is expected in the therapy terminal at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL), where carbon ion beams with energy up to 100 MeV/u can be supplied. The shallow-seated tumor therapy terminal at HIRFL is equipped with a passive beam delivery system including two orthogonal dipole magnets, which continuously scan pencil beams laterally and generate a broad and uniform irradiation field, a motor-driven energy degrader and a multi-leaf collimator. Two different types of range modulator, ripple filter and ridge filter with which Guassian-shaped physical dose and uniform biological effective dose Bragg peaks can be shaped for therapeutic ion beams respectively, have been designed and manufactured. Therefore, two-dimensional and three-dimensional conformal irradiations to tumors can be performed with the passive beam delivery system at the earlier therapy terminal. Both the conformal irradiation methods have been verified experimentally and carbon-ion conformal irradiations to patients with superficially placed tumors have been carried out at HIRFL since November 2006.
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This work is jointly supported by the Century Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.O506120BR0) and the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program, 2006AA02Z499). The authors are grateful to the operating crew of the HIRFL complex for supplying the carbon ion beam in the therapy terminal at HIRFL.
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Li, Q., Dai, Z., Yan, Z. et al. Heavy-ion conformal irradiation in the shallow-seated tumor therapy terminal at HIRFL. Med Bio Eng Comput 45, 1037–1043 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-007-0245-3
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