Division of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine
I’m at a graduate school of medicine. I major in Health Science. I’m studying radiotherapy treatment, especially carbon radiotherapy treatment. In radiotherapy treatment, x-ray, electron beam, proton beam and heavy ion beam are used. Heavy ion beam often means carbon ion beam. The characteristic of carbon ion beam is that it drops a big energy where it stops in patient’s body and does big damage to cells, whatever they are cancer cells or not. If carbon ion hits a normal cell, it’ll cause an adverse event because of this. Therefore, we calculate a dose distribution and make a plan to get rid of a cancer using a computer. To calculate a dose distribution, we need information of how far carbon ion passes through patient’s body and stops. Without getting exact information of this, we cannot aim at only a target. Therefore, we have to calculate this more exactly. In addition, we need to do more simply. It’s because the development of radiotherapy treatment increases the time to make a radiotherapy treatment plan. For now, I introduced my research briefly. Thank you.