Patents by Inventor Hisashi Harada
Hisashi Harada 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).
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Patent number: 8658991Abstract: In order to obtain a particle beam irradiation apparatus that enlarges the dose distribution of beam spots while suppressing a decrease of the maximum available range of a charged particle beam, the particle beam irradiation apparatus includes a particle beam acceleration means; particle beam transport means; scanning apparatus that includes first scanning means and second scanning means, and two-dimensionally scans the beam; and irradiation control means that controls the scanning apparatus so as to irradiate the beam onto a target region including a plurality of small regions. The irradiation control means controls the first scanning means so as to scan the beam over a small region serving as an irradiation subject among the plurality of the small regions, and controls the second scanning means so as to change the small region serving as the irradiation subject to be a different small region among the plurality of the small regions.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2009Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuehu Pu, Katsuhisa Yoshida, Yuichi Yamamoto, Hidenobu Sakamoto, Taizo Honda, Hisashi Harada, Takaaki Iwata
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Patent number: 8586942Abstract: A charged particle beam position monitor is provided with a plurality of position monitors and a beam data processing device that performs calculation processing of the state of a charged particle beam, based on a plurality of signals outputted from the position monitors. The beam data processing device includes a plurality of channel data conversion units that perform AD conversion processing of the plurality of signals outputted from the position monitors; a position size processing unit, for each of the position monitors, that calculates the beam position of the beam, based on voltage information obtained through the AD conversion processing; and an integrated control unit that controls the plurality of channel data conversion units in such a way that while the beam is irradiated onto an irradiation subject, AD conversion processing of the signals is performed at different timings for the respective position monitors.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Taizo Honda, Hisashi Harada, Yuehu Pu, Masahiro Ikeda, Kazushi Hanakawa, Toshihiro Otani, Tadashi Katayose, Yukiko Yamada
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Patent number: 8586948Abstract: A particle beam irradiation apparatus comprises a particle beam shielding member which shields a part of a particle beam which is scanned, a prompt signal detector which detects a prompt signal which is generated when the particle beam which is scanned collides with the particle beam shielding member and a signal comparison device which predicts and obtains a generation pattern of a prompt signal which is generated with a predetermined scanning pattern and stores as a signal time pattern for comparison, wherein the signal comparison device detects an abnormality of scanning of a particle beam or the particle beam shielding member by comparing a detected signal time pattern which is a time pattern of a signal which is detected by the prompt signal detector to a signal time pattern for comparison which is stored.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuehu Pu, Hisashi Harada, Taizo Honda
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Patent number: 8586941Abstract: A particle beam therapy system is provided with high irradiation flexibility that can reduce the amount of irradiation onto normal tissue. There are provided (i) a scanning electromagnet that performs scanning and outputting in such a way that a supplied charged particle beam is formed in a three-dimensional irradiation shape based on a treatment plan and (ii) deflection electromagnets that switch the orbits for the charged particle beam in such a way that the charged particle beam with which scanning and outputting are performed by the scanning electromagnet reaches an isocenter through a single beam orbit selected from a plurality of beam orbits established between the isocenter and the scanning electromagnet. The distance between the scanning electromagnet and the isocenter is made long.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hisashi Harada, Takaaki Iwata
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Publication number: 20130289333Abstract: 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 18 accelerated by an accelerator and scanned by scanning magnets 11 and 12, power supplies 13 and 14 to operate the scanning magnets 11 and 12 output pattern currents for demagnetizing the scanning magnets 11 and 12. The pattern current is controlled by a control circuit 15 that reads a demagnetization pattern 17 and controls the power supplies 13 and 14.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2011Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Sugahara, Masahiro Ikeda, Kazushi Hanakawa, Taizo Honda, Hisashi Harada
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Publication number: 20130274538Abstract: The particle beam irradiation apparatus comprises: a position monitor that detects a passing position of a charged particle beam; and an irradiation control apparatus that calculates a distance from a predetermined reference point to the position monitor, calculates a beam irradiation position on an irradiation subject, and controls irradiation of the beam; wherein the irradiation control apparatus includes a position calculation apparatus that calculates the beam irradiation position, based on a beam position detected by the position monitor, a scanning starting point distance information on a distance from a irradiation plane of the irradiation subject to a scanning starting point, of the beam, in a scanning electromagnet, and a position monitor distance information on a distance, from the irradiation plane to the position monitor, that is calculated based on the calculated distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2011Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yukiko Yamada, Hisashi Harada, Takaaki Iwata, Toshihiro Otani, Masahiro Ikeda, Kazushi Hanakawa, Taizo Honda
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Publication number: 20130253845Abstract: The objective is to eliminate the effect of the hysteresis of a scanning electromagnet and resume high-accuracy beam irradiation from an irradiation position where it has been interrupted, even in the case where emergency-stop processing is performed during therapy. There are provided an irradiation management apparatus that controls a scanning electromagnet; and an interlock information inputting device that generates an interlock signal for stopping irradiation of the charged particle beam, when a contingency occurs. When irradiation of the charged particle beam is resumed, the irradiation management apparatus performs idle operation in which the scanning electromagnet is controlled, with the charged particle beam unirradiated, from a start step, which is situated prior to a stop step and is different from the initial step in actual irradiation, to the stop step, and then irradiates the charged particle beam from the desired irradiation position coordinates corresponding to the stop step.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takaaki IWATA, Kengo Sugahara, Hisashi Harada
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Publication number: 20130190548Abstract: A charged particle beam position monitor is provided with a plurality of position monitors and a beam data processing device that performs calculation processing of the state of a charged particle beam, based on a plurality of signals outputted from the position monitors. The beam data processing device includes a plurality of channel data conversion units that perform AD conversion processing of the plurality of signals outputted from the position monitors; a position size processing unit, for each of the position monitors, that calculates the beam position of the beam, based on voltage information obtained through the AD conversion processing; and an integrated control unit that controls the plurality of channel data conversion units in such a way that while the beam is irradiated onto an irradiation subject, AD conversion processing of the signals is performed at different timings for the respective position monitors.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Taizo Honda, Hisashi Harada, Yuehu Pu, Masahiro Ikeda, Kazushi Hanakawa, Toshihiro Otani, Tadashi Katayose, Yukiko Yamada
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Patent number: 8466441Abstract: The objective is to eliminate the effect of the hysteresis of a scanning electromagnet and resume high-accuracy beam irradiation from an irradiation position where it has been interrupted, even in the case where emergency-stop processing is performed during therapy. There are provided an irradiation management apparatus that controls a scanning electromagnet; and an interlock information inputting device that generates an interlock signal for stopping irradiation of the charged particle beam, when a contingency occurs. When irradiation of the charged particle beam is resumed, the irradiation management apparatus performs idle operation in which the scanning electromagnet is controlled, with the charged particle beam unirradiated, from a start step, which is situated prior to a stop step and is different from the initial step in actual irradiation, to the stop step, and then irradiates the charged particle beam from the desired irradiation position coordinates corresponding to the stop step.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takaaki Iwata, Kengo Sugahara, Hisashi Harada
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Publication number: 20130105703Abstract: The objective is to obtain a particle beam therapy system, the irradiation flexibility of which is high and that can reduce the amount of irradiation onto a normal tissue. There are provided a scanning electromagnet 2 that performs scanning and outputting in such a way that a supplied charged particle beam Bec is formed in a three-dimensional irradiation shape based on a treatment plan; and deflection electromagnets 4 and 5 that switch the orbits for the charged particle beam Bec in such a way that the charged particle beam Bec with which scanning and outputting are performed by the scanning electromagnet 2 reaches an isocenter C through a single beam orbit selected from a plurality of beam orbits 7a, 7b, and 7c established between the isocenter C and the scanning electromagnet 2. The distance between the scanning electromagnet and the isocenter is made long.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2012Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hisashi HARADA, Takaaki IWATA
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Patent number: 8431907Abstract: A particle beam treatment device includes an irradiation nozzle which moves a particle beam in a direction which is perpendicular to an advancing direction; a dose monitor which measures the dose of the particle beam; a planning part which sets the irradiation dose applied to a target volume; and a controlling part which controls the irradiation dose applied to a target volume based on irradiation dose set value which is set by a value measured by the dose monitor and the planning part, wherein the planning part stores the absorbed dose distribution data in the depth direction which is prepared in advance using the absorbed dose at the reference depth which is a predetermined position nearer to an incident side of the particle beam than the position of Bragg peak as the reference and calculates the irradiation dose set value using the absorbed dose at the reference depth.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2011Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masahiro Ikeda, Hisashi Harada, Osamu Takahashi
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Patent number: 8405042Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to reduce the effect of the hysteresis of a scanning electromagnet so as to obtain a particle beam therapy system that realizes high-accuracy beam irradiation. There are included an irradiation management apparatus (32) that controls the scanning electromagnet (3), based on target irradiation position coordinates (Pi) of a charged particle beam (1b), and a position monitor (7) that measures measurement position coordinates (Ps) of the charged particle beam (1b).Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Taizo Honda, Hisashi Harada, Yuehu Pu, Yuichi Yamamoto, Takaaki Iwata
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Patent number: 8389949Abstract: The objective is to obtain a particle beam therapy system, the irradiation flexibility of which is high and that can reduce the amount of irradiation onto a normal tissue. There are provided a scanning electromagnet that performs scanning and outputting in such a way that a supplied charged particle beam is formed in a three-dimensional irradiation shape based on a treatment plan; and deflection electromagnets that switch the orbits for the charged particle beam in such a way that the charged particle beam with which scanning and outputting are performed by the scanning electromagnet reaches an isocenter through a single beam orbit selected from a plurality of beam orbits established between the isocenter and the scanning electromagnet. The distance between the scanning electromagnet and the isocenter is made long.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Mitsusbishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hisashi Harada, Takaaki Iwata
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Publication number: 20130053617Abstract: A particle beam irradiation apparatus comprises a particle beam shielding member which shields a part of a particle beam which is scanned, a prompt signal detector which detects a prompt signal which is generated when the particle beam which is scanned collides with the particle beam shielding member and a signal comparison device which predicts and obtains a generation pattern of a prompt signal which is generated with a predetermined scanning pattern and stores as a signal time pattern for comparison, wherein the signal comparison device detects an abnormality of scanning of a particle beam or the particle beam shielding member by comparing a detected signal time pattern which is a time pattern of a signal which is detected by the prompt signal detector to a signal time pattern for comparison which is stored.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuehu Pu, Hisashi Harada, Taizo Honda
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Publication number: 20120313002Abstract: A particle beam treatment device includes an irradiation nozzle which moves a particle beam in a direction which is perpendicular to an advancing direction; a dose monitor which measures the dose of the particle beam; a planning part which sets the irradiation dose applied to a target volume; and a controlling part which controls the irradiation dose applied to a target volume based on irradiation dose set value which is set by a value measured by the dose monitor and the planning part, wherein the planning part stores the absorbed dose distribution data in the depth direction which is prepared in advance using the absorbed dose at the reference depth which is a predetermined position nearer to an incident side of the particle beam than the position of Bragg peak as the reference and calculates the irradiation dose set value using the absorbed dose at the reference depth.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2011Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masahiro Ikeda, Hisashi Harada, Osamu Takahashi
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Patent number: 8314411Abstract: There is obtained a particle beam therapy system in which the beam size is reduced. There are provided an accelerator 14 that accelerates a charged particle beam; an irradiation apparatus that has a beam scanning apparatus 5a, 5b for performing scanning with the charged particle beam and irradiates the charged particle beam onto an irradiation subject; and a beam transport apparatus 15 that has a duct for ensuring a vacuum region or gas region that continues from the accelerator 14 to a beam outlet window 7 disposed at a more downstream position than the beam scanning apparatus 5a, 5b, and that transports the charged particle beam exiting from the accelerator 14 to the irradiation apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2009Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hisashi Harada, Takaaki Iwata, Taizo Honda, Yuehu Pu, Yuichi Yamamoto, Toshihiro Otani, Hidenobu Sakamoto
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Patent number: 8309939Abstract: When a predetermined region of a target volume is divided into multiple layers in a depth direction of particle beams and particle beams are irradiated, dose calibration is carried out separately for the divided layers.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2008Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hisashi Harada, Osamu Takahashi, Yue Hu Pu
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Patent number: 8304751Abstract: In a charged particle beam irradiation apparatus to be adapted to a particle beam cancer treatment system or the like, a desired depth dose distribution is highly precisely created. In the charged particle beam irradiation apparatus that irradiates a particle beam, which is radiated from a particle beam generation unit, to a subject to be irradiated via a ridge filter exhibiting a cyclic thickness distribution for causing the particle beam to exhibit a desired energy distribution, the ridge filter has plural ridges thereof arranged to be perpendicular to entering directions of the particle beam.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2008Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Taizo Honda, Hisashi Harada, Yuehu Pu
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Patent number: 8274243Abstract: Target respiration information is created in which a patient respiration pattern is set in advance to a cycle suitable for an operation cycle of a synchrotron, and the target respiration information is informed to the patient, so that a patient respiration timing becomes a state suitable for an operation of the synchrotron in such a manner that the patient consciously matches with the informed information.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2008Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hisashi Harada, Akihiko Hoshi
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Publication number: 20120229143Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2011Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiro Otani, Hisashi Harada, Masahiro Ikeda, Kazushi Hanakawa, Taizo Honda