Commissioning a newly developed treatment planning system, VQA Plan, for fast-raster scanning of carbon-ion beams

• Masashi Yagi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: m.yagi@radonc.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Carbon Ion Radiotherapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita-city, Osaka, Japan, Department of Medical Physics, Osaka Heavy Ion Therapy Center, Chuo-ku, Osaka-city, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2827-5407

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• Toshiro Tsubouchi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Physics, Osaka Heavy Ion Therapy Center, Chuo-ku, Osaka-city, Osaka, Japan

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• Noriaki Hamatani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Physics, Osaka Heavy Ion Therapy Center, Chuo-ku, Osaka-city, Osaka, Japan

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• Masaaki Takashina,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Physics, Osaka Heavy Ion Therapy Center, Chuo-ku, Osaka-city, Osaka, Japan

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• Hiroyasu Maruo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Technology, Osaka Heavy Ion Therapy Center, Chuo-ku, Osaka-city, Osaka, Japan

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• Shinichiro Fujitaka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hitachi, Ltd. Research & Development Group, Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Hideaki Nihongi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hitachi, Ltd. Smart Life Business Management Division/Healthcare Business Division, KOIL TERRACE 3F 226-44-141-1, Wakashiba, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, Japan

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• Kazuhiko Ogawa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita-city, Osaka, Japan

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• Tatsuaki Kanai

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Physics, Osaka Heavy Ion Therapy Center, Chuo-ku, Osaka-city, Osaka, Japan

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