Patents by Inventor Tomohisa IMAGAWA

Tomohisa IMAGAWA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220323790
    Abstract: A particle therapy system includes: an accelerator that accelerates a particle beam; an irradiation system that applies the beam accelerated by the accelerator to a target; and a controller that controls the accelerator and the irradiation system. The controller has a treatment execution system that generates a control parameter which controls the accelerator and the irradiation system based on a treatment plan and has a treatment execution controller that controls the accelerator and the irradiation system based on the control parameter generated by the treatment execution system. When irradiation to the target by the irradiation system is suspended due to a failure or an artificial manipulation, the treatment execution system calculates an irradiated dose of the particle beam and an unirradiated dose of the particle beam, and the treatment execution system delivers at least the unirradiated dose to the treatment execution controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Haruki ARITA, Tomohisa IMAGAWA, Naofumi ISHIGURO
  • Patent number: 9308394
    Abstract: A particle beam irradiation system having a multi-energy extraction control operation that controls the extraction beam energy in a synchrotron within a short time, such that when the ion beam irradiation is halted, an operating cycle is updated within a short time and a dose rate is improved. To this end, operating control data for each of the devices constituting the synchrotron is constructed by multi-energy extraction control pattern data for controlling extraction of beams of a plurality of energy levels at one operating cycle, and a plurality of sets of deceleration control data that correspond to the extraction control of the beam of the plurality of energy levels. The devices are controlled by using the operating control data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Nishiuchi, Masumi Umezawa, Takuya Nomura, Satoshi Totake, Koji Tobinaga, Tomohisa Imagawa, Seiji Yoshiura, Moemi Takeda
  • Patent number: 9302121
    Abstract: A particle therapy system is capable of reducing an increase in treatment time caused by the initialization operation of magnets in the execution of the scanning irradiation method successively changing the energy level of a beam extracted from an accelerator. An irradiation control apparatus has a scheme that calculates setting vales of excitation current for bending magnets for a transport system on every irradiation condition (energy condition), and sets appropriate excitation current values according to the irradiation sequence. The irradiation control apparatus 35 prestores in a current supply control table 1 reference current values determined corresponding to energy levels of the ion beam, prestores in current supply compensation value tables 1, 2 compensation current values determined corresponding to energy levels of the ion beam and numbers of times of changing the energy level, and calculates the excitation current value of the magnets by using the values prestored in the tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Totake, Masumi Umezawa, Tomohisa Imagawa
  • Publication number: 20150076370
    Abstract: A particle therapy system is capable of reducing an increase in treatment time caused by the initialization operation of magnets in the execution of the scanning irradiation method successively changing the energy level of a beam extracted from an accelerator. An irradiation control apparatus has a scheme that calculates setting vales of excitation current for bending magnets for a transport system on every irradiation condition (energy condition), and sets appropriate excitation current values according to the irradiation sequence. The irradiation control apparatus 35 prestores in a current supply control table 1 reference current values determined corresponding to energy levels of the ion beam, prestores in current supply compensation value tables 1, 2 compensation current values determined corresponding to energy levels of the ion beam and numbers of times of changing the energy level, and calculates the excitation current value of the magnets by using the values prestored in the tables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Satoshi TOTAKE, Masumi UMEZAWA, Tomohisa IMAGAWA
  • Patent number: 8916841
    Abstract: A particle therapy system is capable of reducing an increase in treatment time caused by the initialization operation of magnets in the execution of the scanning irradiation method successively changing the energy level of a beam extracted from an accelerator. An irradiation control apparatus has a scheme that calculates setting vales of excitation current for bending magnets for a transport system on every irradiation condition (energy condition), and sets appropriate excitation current values according to the irradiation sequence. The irradiation control apparatus 35 prestores in a current supply control table 1 reference current values determined corresponding to energy levels of the ion beam, prestores in current supply compenzation value tables 1, 2 compenzation current values determined corresponding to energy levels of the ion beam and numbers of times of changing the energy level, and calculates the excitation current value of the magnets by using the values prestored in the tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Totake, Masumi Umezawa, Tomohisa Imagawa
  • Publication number: 20140021375
    Abstract: A particle beam irradiation system having a multi-energy extraction control operation that controls the extraction beam energy in a synchrotron within a short time, such that when the ion beam irradiation is halted, an operating cycle is updated within a short time and a dose rate is improved. To this end, operating control data for each of the devices constituting the synchrotron is constructed by multi-energy extraction control pattern data for controlling extraction of beams of a plurality of energy levels at one operating cycle, and a plurality of sets of deceleration control data that correspond to the extraction control of the beam of the plurality of energy levels. The devices are controlled by using the operating control data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Hideaki NISHIUCHI, Masumi UMEZAWA, Takuya NOMURA, Satoshi TOTAKE, Koji TOBINAGA, Tomohisa IMAGAWA, Seiji YOSHIURA, Moemi TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20130267756
    Abstract: A particle therapy system is capable of reducing an increase in treatment time caused by the initialization operation of magnets in the execution of the scanning irradiation method successively changing the energy level of a beam extracted from an accelerator. An irradiation control apparatus has a scheme that calculates setting vales of excitation current for bending magnets for a transport system on every irradiation condition (energy condition), and sets appropriate excitation current values according to the irradiation sequence. The irradiation control apparatus 35 prestores in a current supply control table 1 reference current values determined corresponding to energy levels of the ion beam, prestores in current supply compensation value tables 1, 2 compensation current values determined corresponding to energy levels of the ion beam and numbers of times of changing the energy level, and calculates the excitation current value of the magnets by using the values prestored in the tables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi TOTAKE, Masumi UMEZAWA, Tomohisa IMAGAWA