Abstract
Hyogo Ion Beam Medical Center is a new ion beam treatment facility which was opened in April 2001. Ion beam treatment at this center comprises an irradiation system, a treatment planning system and a treatment verification system. The irradiation system consists of huge machines that might seem to play a major role in ion beam therapy, however, two other systems also play absolutely important role.
Holistic and highly precise functions of these three systems are essential and cooperative work among radiation oncologists, medical physicists, radiological technologists and nurses is more important than anything else in performing this highly sophisticated treatment.
