New treatment facility for heavy-ion cancer therapy at HIMAC

Based on more than 10 years of experience with HIMAC, we have proposed a new treatment facility for the further development of therapy with HIMAC. The new facility, as an extension of the existing one, has been designed and the related R&D work has been carried out. The following descriptions give a summary account of the design study and the related R&D work for this new treatment facility at HIMAC.