Research for the RI Beam Medical Application at HIMAC and RI production Techniques

Short-lived radio-pharmaceuticals are extensively used in NIRS (National Institute of Radiological Sciences). One of most important field is diagnosis for cancer treatment by PET (Positron Emission Tomography) before and after radio-therapy, and the accumulated number of these PET diagnoses was more than 1000 times in 2008 financial year. To produce RI\u27s for these radio-pharmaceuticals, three cyclotrons of NIRS-930, HM18, and BC2010N are operated. In the field of RI is as the beam, which is produced in projectile fragment. In the HIMAC facility, fragment separator was constructed to use RI beam and several R&D\u27s were performed with this beam course. In this experiment, effectiveness of positron emitter like 11C beam was used to verify an irradiated volume.NIRS-IMP Joint Symposium on Carbon Ion Therap