Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080298553 | Particle-Beam Treatment System - Provision is made for a particle-beam treatment system in which, even during particle-beam irradiation, the shape of a multileaf collimator is monitored. The particle-beam treatment system, in which multi-layer conformal irradiation is performed while the setting of the shape of the multileaf collimator in an irradiation head is changed during particle-beam irradiation, is provided with an optical shape-monitoring unit mounted attachably and detachably in the snout portion at the downstream side of the multileaf collimator, the optical shape-monitoring unit having a shape-monitoring mirror, opposing the multileaf collimator, for monitoring the shape of the multileaf collimator; a video camera for shooting the multileaf-collimator shape reflected by the shape-monitoring mirror; and an image monitor for displaying an image of the video camera that shoots the shape of the multileaf collimator. | 12-04-2008 |
20100113410 | PYRAZOLOPYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE - Problem to be Solved To provide a novel compound inhibiting the effect of HSP90, in particular a novel compound inhibiting the function of HSP90 as a chaperone protein and having antitumor activity.
| 05-06-2010 |
20110071170 | TRICYCLIC PYRAZOLOPYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVES - A pyrazolopyrimidine compound represented by formula (1) that inhibits the function of HSP90 as a chaperone protein and that has antitumor activity, a medicament comprising a compound represented by formula (1), a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound represented by formula (1), and a method for treating cancer using a compound represented by formula (1). | 03-24-2011 |
20120202833 | TRICYCLIC PYRAZOLOPYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVES - A pyrazolopyrimidine compound represented by formula (1) that inhibits the function of HSP90 as a chaperone protein and that has antitumor activity, a medicament comprising a compound represented by formula (1), a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound represented by formula (1), and a method for treating cancer using a compound represented by formula (1). | 08-09-2012 |
20120223247 | PARTICLE BEAM IRRADIATION SYSTEM - A particle beam irradiation system comprises deflection electromagnets which scan by deflecting the particle beam in two dimensions in the lateral direction which is perpendicular to an irradiation direction of the particle beam, and an energy width expanding device through which the particle beam passes so as to expand an energy width of the particle beam and form a SOBP in a depth direction of the irradiation target, that is, in an irradiation direction of the particle beam, wherein the energy width expanding device is configured to form the SOBP in the depth direction along whole irradiation area in the depth direction of the irradiation target, and the deflection electromagnets are controlled so as for an irradiation spot which is formed in the irradiation target by the particle beam to move stepwise along whole irradiation area in the lateral direction of the irradiation target. | 09-06-2012 |
20120228521 | PARTICLE BEAM THERAPY SYSTEM - The objective is to obtain a particle beam therapy system that can suppress the effect of a leakage dose. There are provided a scanning nozzle that irradiates in a predetermined direction a particle beam emitted from an accelerator; an irradiation control unit that controls operation of the irradiation nozzle in such a way that the particle beam of a predetermined dose is sequentially irradiated onto each of a plurality of spots set in a planar direction in an irradiation subject; and a control unit that on/off-controls emission of the particle beam from the accelerator. The irradiation control unit makes the irradiation nozzle scan in a diluting manner the particle beam onto a predetermined area in the irradiation subject, in a predetermined period after a time point when emission is switched from ON to OFF, or in a period from the time point when emission is switched from ON to OFF to a time point when the particle beam is cut off. | 09-13-2012 |
20120229143 | SENSITIVITY CORRECTION METHOD FOR DOSE MONITORING DEVICE AND PARTICLE BEAM THERAPY SYSTEM - In a particle beam therapy system which scans a particle beam and irradiates the particle beam to an irradiation position of an irradiation subject and has a dose monitoring device for measuring a dose of the particle beam and an ionization chamber smaller than the dose monitoring device, the ionization chamber measuring a dose of a particle beam passing through the dose monitoring device, the dose of the particle beam irradiated by the dose monitoring device is measured; the dose of the particle beam passing through the dose monitoring device is measured by the small ionization chamber; and a correction coefficient of the dose measured by the dose monitoring device corresponding to the irradiation position is found based on the dose of the particle beam measured by the small ionization chamber. | 09-13-2012 |
20120237518 | ANTI-TROP-2 ANTIBODY - The present invention relates to a monoclonal antibody or an antibody fragment thereof, which binds to the extracellular region of human Trop-2 with high affinity and exhibits high ADCC activity and high antitumor activity; a hybridoma which produces the antibody; a DNA which encodes the antibody; a vector which comprises the DNA; a transformant obtainable by introducing the vector; a process for producing an antibody or an antibody fragment thereof using the hybridoma or the transformant; and a therapeutic agent or a diagnostic agent using the antibody fragment thereof. | 09-20-2012 |
20130289333 | PARTICLE BEAM THERAPY SYSTEM - The present invention is intended to enable proper elimination of the remanent magnetization of the scanning magnet, which is used in a particle beam therapy system, in a short time. In the particle beam therapy system that irradiates an irradiation target with a particle beam | 10-31-2013 |
20140323793 | PARTICLE BEAM THERAPY DEVICE AND PARTICLE BEAM THERAPY DEVICE OPERATION METHOD - A control unit is provided with, a retaining section that retains a plurality of operation patterns each being a pattern of operation to be periodically repeated by an accelerator, the operation patterns having respective operation conditions adjusted for different emission times of an particle beam, to cause a deflection electromagnet in the accelerator to have an intended magnetic field intensity even under a presence of a hysteresis; a reading section for a plurality of slices of an irradiation target in a depth direction, which reads an irradiation condition for each of the slices; a selection section that selects the operation pattern suitable for each of the slices, on the basis of the read irradiation condition; and a main control section that controls, for each of the slices, the accelerator on the basis of the selected operation pattern and an irradiation device on the basis of the irradiation condition. | 10-30-2014 |
20140374624 | SENSITIVITY CORRECTION METHOD FOR DOSE MONITORING DEVICE AND PARTICLE BEAM THERAPY SYSTEM - In a particle beam therapy system which scans a particle beam and irradiates the particle beam to an irradiation position of an irradiation subject and has a dose monitoring device for measuring a dose of the particle beam and an ionization chamber smaller than the dose monitoring device, the ionization chamber measuring a dose of a particle beam passing through the dose monitoring device, the dose of the particle beam irradiated by the dose monitoring device is measured; the dose of the particle beam passing through the dose monitoring device is measured by the small ionization chamber; and a correction coefficient of the dose measured by the dose monitoring device corresponding to the irradiation position is found based on the dose of the particle beam measured by the small ionization chamber. | 12-25-2014 |
20150038766 | PARTICLE BEAM SCANNING IRRADIATION SYSTEM - A particle beam scanning irradiation method includes the steps of calculating a planned irradiating particle count of a particle beam for each of irradiation spots, on the basis of a relative amount of particle beam irradiation and a prescription particle-beam dose determined from a particle-beam therapy plan; simulating an irradiation process of the particle beam at each irradiation spot, on the basis of the planned irradiating particle count and a beam current waveform of the particle beam, and calculating a particle count of the particle beam irradiating the diseased portion during a scan shift of the particle beam; correcting the planned irradiating particle count for each irradiation spot by using the irradiating particle count during the scan shift; converting the corrected planned-irradiation particle count into a count value used in a dose monitor; and irradiating the irradiation spot with the particle beam, on the basis of the converted count value. | 02-05-2015 |
20150080631 | PARTICLE BEAM SCANNING IRRADIATION SYSTEM - A particle beam scanning irradiation system includes a computer establishing a scanning sequence for irradiation of a tumor portion in a patient; and a particle beam irradiation device irradiating the tumor portion in accordance with the established scanning sequence of the particle beam. The computer selects all conceivable combinations of pairs of irradiation spots among the plurality of irradiation spots arranged in the tumor portion, and determines whether each path for the particle beam to shift between two spots constituting the selected pair passes through the tumor portion; determines a penalty matrix expressing whether each path passes through the tumor portion on the basis of the determination result; evaluates a function for the shift paths on the basis of an optimizing algorithm, and establishes the scanning sequence of the particle beam by an optimized solution of the function. | 03-19-2015 |