Publication
1. Takuji Furukawa, Yousuke Hara, Kota Mizushima, Naoya Saotome, Ryohei Tansho, Yuichi Saraya,
Taku Inaniwa, Shinichiro Mori, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, Development of
NIRS pencil beam scanning system for carbon ion radiotherapy, Nuclear Instruments and Methods inPhysics Research Section B 406(A), 2017, 361-367.
2.

Takuji Furukawa, Toshiyuki Shirai, Taku Inaniwa, Shinji Sato, Eri Takeshita, Kota Mizushima,
Yosuke Hara, Koji Noda, Nobuichi Kakutani, Yoshihatu Kanai, Yasushi Iseki, Choji Yamazaki, et al.,Development of Fast Scanning Magnets and Their Power Supply for Particle Therapy, IEEE
Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 24(3), 2014, 4401504.

3.

Takuji Furukawa, Taku Inaniwa, Yousuke Hara, Kota Mizushima, Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda,
Patient-specific QA and delivery verification of scanned ion beam at NIRS-HIMAC, Medical Physics
40(12), 2013, 121707.

4.

Takuji Furukawa, Taku Inaniwa, Shinji Sato, Toshiyuki Shirai, Yuka Takei, Eri Takeshita, Kota
Mizushima, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Takeshi Himukai, Shinichiro Mori, Shigekazu Fukuda, Shinichi
Minohara, Eiichi Takada, Takeshi Murakami, and Koji Noda, Performance of the NIRS fast scanningsystem for heavy-ion radiotherapy, Medical Physics 37(11), 2010, 5672-5682.

5.

Takuji Furukawa, Taku Inaniwa, Shinji Sato, Toshiyuki Shirai, Shinichiro Mori, Eri Takeshita, Kota
Mizushima, Takeshi Himukai, and Koji Noda, Moving target irradiation with fast rescanning andgating in particle therapy, Medical Physics 37(9), 2010, 4874-4879.

6.

Takuji Furukawa, Naoya Saotome, Taku Inaniwa, Shinji Sato, Koji Noda, and Tatsuaki Kanai,
Delivery verification using 3D dose reconstruction based on fluorescence measurement in a carbon
beam scanning irradiation system, Medical Physics 35(6), 2008, 2235-2242.

7.

Takuji Furukawa, Taku Inaniwa, Shinji Sato, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Tetsuya Fujimoto, Shinichi Minohara,
Koji Noda, and Tatsuaki Kanai, Design study of a rotating gantry for the HIMAC new treatment
facility, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 266(10), 2008, 2186-2189.

8.

Takuji Furukawa, Taku Inaniwa, Shinji Sato, Takehiro Tomitani, Shinichi Minohara, Koji Noda, andTatsuaki Kanai, Design study of a raster scanning system for moving target irradiation in heavy-ion
radiotherapy, Medical Physics 34(3), 2007, 1085-1097.

9.

Takuji Furukawa, Koji Noda, Katsuhisa Yoshida, Takehiro Uesugi, Masashi Katsumata, Tadahiro
Shiraishi, Takuya Shimojyu, Shinji Shibuya, Tomohiro Miyoshi, Mitsutaka Kanazawa, Masami
Torikoshi, Eiichi Takada, and Satoru Yamada, Design of synchrotron and transport line for carbon
therapy facility and related machine study at HIMAC, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics
Research Section A 562(2), 2006, 1050-1053.

10. Takuji Furukawa, Koji Noda, Tetsuya Fujimoto, Takehiro Uesugi, Shinji Shibuya, and Masami
Torikoshi, Optical matching of a slowly extracted beam with transport line, Nuclear Instruments andMethods in Physics Research Section A 560(2), 2006, 191-196.
11. Takuji Furukawa, Koji Noda, Takehiro Uesugi, Takuya Naruse, and Shinji Shibuya, Intensity control
in RF-knockout extraction for scanning irradiation, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics
Research Section B 240(1–2), 2005, 32-35.

12. Takuji Furukawa and Koji Noda, Contribution of synchrotron oscillation to spill ripple in
RF-knockout slow-extraction, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
539(1–2), 2005, 44-53.
13. Takuji Furukawa, Koji Noda, Masayuki Muramatsu, Tomonori Uesugi, Shinnji Shibuya, Hideyuki
Kawai, Eiichi Takada, and Satoru Yamada, Grobal spill control in RF-knockout slow-extraction,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A 522(3), 2004,196-204.
14. Takuji Furukawa, Koji Noda, Eriko Urakabe, Masayuki Muramatsu, Mitsutaka Kanazawa, andKazushige Maeda, Characteristics of fast beam switching for spot scanning, Nuclear Instruments andMethods in Physics Research Section A 503(3), 2003, 485-495.
15. Takuji Furukawa and Koji Noda, Compensation of the asymmetric phase-space distribution for a
slowly extracted beam from a synchrotron, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research
Section A 565(2), 2006, 430-438.
16. Kota Mizushima, Takuji Furukawa, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Masayuki Muramatsu, Shinji Sato, YousukeHara, Ryohei Tansho, Yuichi Saraya, Naoya Saotome, Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, Experimental
verification of beam switching operation for multiple-ion therapy applications at HIMAC, Nuclear
Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 459, 2019, 115-119.
17. Sung-Hyun Lee, Ryohei Tansho, Kota Mizushima, Takuji Furukawa, Yousuke Hara, Yuichi Saraya,
Naoya Saotome, and Toshiyuki Shirai, Effect of general ion recombination on dose measurement forhigh dose rate carbon-ion scanning beam, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research
Section B 468, 2020, 14-17.
18. Yousuke Hara, Naoya Saotome, Takuji Furukawa, Kota Mizushima, Ryohei Tansho, Yuichi Saraya,
and Toshiyuki Shirai, Experimental verification of short-range low-energy carbon-ion scanning in
NIRS-HIMAC, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 461, 2019, 6-9.
19. Shinichiro Mori, Yuka Takei, Toshiyuki Shirai, Yousuke Hara, Takuji Furukawa, Taku Inaniwa,
Katsuyuki Tanimoto, Minoru Tajiri, Daigo Kuroiwa, Taku Kimura, Naoyoshi Yamamoto, Shigeru
Yamada, Hiroshi Tsuji, and Tadashi Kamada, Scanned carbon-ion beam therapy throughput over the
first 7 years at National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Physica Medica 52, 2018, 18-26.
20. Yoshiyuki Iwata, Takashi Fujita, Tetsuya Fujimoto, Takuji Furukawa, Yousuke Hara, Kiminori
Kondo, Kota Mizushima, Takeshi Murakami, Masayuki Muramatsu, Mamiko Nishiuchi, Estuo Noda,
Koji Noda, Hironao Sakaki, Naoya Saotome, Yuichi Saraya, Shinji Sato, Toshiyuki Shirai, and Ryohei
Tansho, Development of Carbon-Ion Radiotherapy Facilities at NIRS, IEEE Transactions on Applied
Superconductivity 28(3), 2018, 4400807.
21. Yoshiyuki Iwata, Tetsuya Fujimoto, Shunya Matsuba, Takashi Fujita, Shinji Sato, Takuji Furukawa,Yousuke Hara, Kota Mizushima, Yuichi Saraya, Ryohei Tansho, Naoya Saotome, Toshiyuki Shirai, andKoji Noda, Recent progress of a superconducting rotating-gantry for carbon-ion radiotherapy, Nuclear
Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 406(A), 2017, 338-342.
22. Yousuke Hara, Takuji Furukawa, Kota Mizushima, Taku Inaniwa, Naoya Saotome, Ryohei Tansho,
Yuichi Saraya, Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, Commissioning of full energy scanning irradiation
with carbon-ion beams ranging from 55.6 to 430 MeV/u at the NIRS-HIMAC, Nuclear Instruments andMethods in Physics Research Section B 406(A), 2017, 343-346.

23. Kota Mizushima, Takuji Furukawa, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Yousuke Hara, Naoya Saotome, Yuichi Saraya,
Ryohei Tansho, Shinji Sato, Tetsuya Fujimoto, Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, Performance of the
HIMAC beam control system using multiple-energy synchrotron operation, Nuclear Instruments andMethods in Physics Research Section B 406(A), 2017, 347-351.
24. Ryohei Tansho, Takuji Furukawa, Yousuke Hara, Kota Mizushima, Naoya Saotome, Yuichi Saraya,
Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, Development of a new ridge filter with honeycomb geometry for a
pencil beam scanning system in particle radiotherapy, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics
Research Section B 406(A), 2017, 352-355.
25. Naoya Saotome, Takuji Furukawa, Yousuke Hara, Kota Mizushima, Ryohei Tansho, Yuichi Saraya,
Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, Design and performance of daily quality assurance system for carbon
ion therapy at NIRS, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 406(A), 2017,356-360.
26. Koji Noda, Takuji Furukawa, Tetsuya Fujimoto, Yousuke Hara, Taku Inaniwa, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Ken
Katagiri, Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Kota Mizushima, Shinichiro Mori, Naoya Saotome, Yuichi Saraya,
Shinji Sato, Toshiyuki Shirai, Masashi Takada, Yuka Takei, Ryohei Tansho, and Shunsuke Yonai,
Recent progress and future plans of heavy-ion cancer radiotherapy with HIMAC, Nuclear Instruments
and Methods in Physics Research Section B 406(A), 2017, 374-378.
27. Yoshiyuki Iwata, Tetsuya Fujimoto, Shunya Matsuba, Takashi Fujita, Shinji Sato, Takuji Furukawa,Yousuke Hara, Kota Mizushima, Yuichi Saraya, Ryohei Tansho, Naoya Saotome, Toshiyuki Shirai, andKoji Noda, Beam commissioning of a superconducting rotating-gantry for carbon-ion radiotherapy,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A 834,2016, 71-80.
28. Yuichi Saraya, Eri Takeshita, Takuji Furukawa, Yousuke Hara, Kota Mizushima, Naoya Saotome,
Ryohei Tansho, Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, Adjustment Procedure for Beam Alignment in
Scanned Ion-Beam Therapy, Journal of the Korean Physical Society 69, 2016, 948-952.
29. Yousuke Hara, Takuji Furukawa, Kota Mizushima, Naoya Saotome, Yuichi Saraya, Ryohei Tansho,
Toshiyuki Shirai, Koji Noda, and Eri Takeshita, Development of a compact dose veriﬁcation systemusing a fluorescent screen for carbon-ion therapy, Journal of the Korean Physical Society 69, 2016,
1014-1018.
30. Shinichiro Mori and Takuji Furukawa, Rapid phase-correlated rescanning irradiation improves
treatment time in carbon-ion scanning beam treatment under irregular breathing, Physics in Medicine &Biology 61(10), 2016, 3857-3866.
31. Naoya Saotome, Takuji Furukawa, Yousuke Hara, Kota Mizushima, Ryohei Tansho, Yuichi Saraya,
Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, Range verification system using edge detection method for a
scintillator and a CCD camera system, Medical Physics 43(4), 2016, 1754-1759.
32. Ryohei Tansho, Takuji Furukawa, Yousuke Hara, Kota Mizushima, Naoya Saotome, Yuichi Saraya,
Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, Experimental verification of gain drop due to general ion
recombination for a carbon-ion pencil beam, Medical Physics 43(2), 2016, 635-642.
33. Shinichiro Mori, Seiya Amano, Takuji Furukawa, Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, Effect of
secondary particles on image quality of dynamic flat panels in carbon ion scanning beam treatment,
The British Journal of Radiology 88(1047), 2015, 20140567.

34. Taku Inaniwa, Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Yousuke Hara, and Takuji Furukawa, Nuclear-interaction
correction of integrated depth dose in carbon-ion radiotherapy treatment planning, Physics in Medicine& Biology 60(1), 2015, 421-435.
35. Wataru Takahashi, Shinichiro Mori, Mio Nakajima, Naoyoshi Yamamoto, Taku Inaniwa, Takuji
Furukawa, Toshiyuki Shirai, Koji Noda, Keiichi Nakagawa, and Tadashi Kamada, Carbon-ion
scanning lung treatment planning with respiratory-gated phase-controlled rescanning: Simulation study
using 4-dimensional CT data, Radiation Oncology 9, 2014, 238.
36. Shunsuke Yonai, Takuji Furukawa, and Taku Inaniwa, Measurement of neutron ambient dose
equivalent in carbon-ion radiotherapy with an active scanned delivery system, Radiation Protection
Dosimetry, 161(1-4), 2014, 433-436.
37. Taku Inaniwa, Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Yousuke Hara, Takuji Furukawa, Mai Fukahori, Minoru Nakao,
and Toshiyuki Shirai, Implementation of a triple Gaussian beam model with subdivision andredefinition against density heterogeneities in treatment planning for scanned carbon-ion radiotherapy,
Physics in Medicine & Biology 59(18), 2014, 5361-86.
38. Shinichiro Mori, Taku Inaniwa, Takuji Furukawa, Wataru Takahashi, Mio Nakajima, Toshiyuki
Shirai, Koji Noda, Shigeo Yasuda, and Naoyoshi Yamamoto, Amplitude-based gated phase-controlled
rescanning in carbon-ion scanning beam treatment planning under irregular breathing conditions usinglung and liver 4DCTs, Journal of radiation research 55(5), 2014, 948-958.
39. Koji Noda, Takuji Furukawa, Tetsuya Fujimoto, Yousuke Hara, Taku Inaniwa, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Ken
Katagiri, Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Kota Mizushima, Tomohiro Miyoshi, Shinichiro Mori, Takeshi
Murakami, Yoshinobu Sano, Shinji Sato, Toshiyuki Shirai, Eiichi Takada, Yuka Takei, and Shunsuke
Yonai, Recent progress of HIMAC for sophisticated heavy-ion cancer radiotherapy, Nuclear
Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 331, 2014, 6-9.
40. Kota Mizushima, Ken Katagiri, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Takuji Furukawa, Tetsuya Fujimoto, Shinji Sato,
Yousuke Hara, Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, Experimental studies of systematic multiple-energy
operation at HIMAC synchrotron, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B
331, 2014, 243-247.
41. Yousuke Hara, Takuji Furukawa, Kota Mizushima, Eri Takeshita, Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda,
Application of radiochromic film for quality assurance in the heavy-ion beam scanning irradiation
system at HIMAC, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 331, 2014,
253-256.
42. Shinichiro Mori, Silvan Zenklusen, Taku Inaniwa, Takuji Furukawa, Hiroshi Imada, Toshiyuki Shirai,
Koji Noda, and Shigeo Yasuda, Conformity and robustness of gated rescanned carbon ion pencil beamscanning of liver tumors at NIRS, Radiotherapy and Oncology 111(3), 2014, 431-436.
43. Yoshiyuki Iwata, Shinji Suzuki, Koji Noda, Toshiyuki Shirai, Takeshi Murakami, Takuji Furukawa,Takashi Fujita, Yousuke Hara, Kota Mizushima, Shinji Sato, Shinichiro Mori, Kouichi Shoda, Tetsuya
Fujimoto, Tomofumi Orikasa, Shigeki Takayama, Toru Ogitsu, Tetsuhiro Obanam, Naoyuki Amemiya,
et al., Development of curved combined-function superconducting-magnets for a heavy-ion
rotating-gantry, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 24(3), 2014, 440505.

44. Yousuke Hara, Takuji Furukawa, Taku Inaniwa, Kota Mizushima, Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, A
novel method for experimental characterization of large-angle scattered particles in scanned carbon-ion
therapy, Medical Physics 41(2), 2014, 021706.
45. Yoshiyuki Iwata, Koji Noda, Takeshi Murakami, Toshiyuki Shirai, Takuji Furukawa, Takashi Fujita,
Shinichiro Mori, Kota Mizushima, Kouichi Shoda, Tetsuya Fujimoto, Toru Ogitsu, Tetsuhiro Obana,
Naoyuki Amemiya, Tomofumi Orikasa, Shigeki Takayama, et al., Development of a superconducting
rotating-gantry for heavy-ion therapy, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B
317(B), 2013, 793-797.
46. Yousuke Hara, Takuji Furukawa, Eri Takeshita, Kota Mizushima, Shinji Sato, Toshiyuki Shirai, andKoji Noda, Performance of a fluorescent screen with a CCD system for quality assurance in aheavy-ion beam scanning irradiation system, Journal of the Korean Physical Society 63(7), 2013,1446-1450.
47. Kota Mizushima, Eri Takeshita, Takuji Furukawa, Yousuke Hara, Toshiyuki Shirai, Ken Katagiri, andKoji Noda, Beam Spot Imaging System Using a Fluorescent Screen for Carbon-ion Radiotherapy,
Journal of the Korean Physical Society 63(7), 2013, 1437-1440.
48. Shinichiro Mori, Silvan Marius Zenklusen, Taku Inaniwa, Takuji Furukawa, Toshiyuki Shirai, andKoji Noda, Effects of a difference in respiratory cycle between treatment planning and irradiation forphase controlled rescanning and carbon pencil beam scanning, British Journal of Radiology 86(1028),
2013, 20130163.
49. Taku Inaniwa, Masao Suzuki, Takuji Furukawa, Yuki Kase, Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Toshiyuki Shirai,
and Roland B Hawkins, Effects of dose-delivery time structure on biological effectiveness fortherapeutic carbon-ion beams evaluated with microdosimetric kinetic model, Radiation Research180(1), 2013, 44-59.
50. Shinichiro Mori, Takuji Furukawa, Taku Inaniwa, Silvan M Zenklusen, Minoru Nakao, Toshiyuki
Shirai, and Koji Noda, Systematic evaluation of four-dimensional hybrid depth scanning for carbon-ion
lung therapy, Medical Physics 40(3), 2013, 031720.
51. Shinichiro Mori, Toshiyuki Shirai, Yuka Takei, Takuji Furukawa, Taku Inaniwa, Yuka Matsuzaki,
Motoki Kumagai, Takeshi Murakami, and Koji Noda, Patient handling system for carbon ion beamscanning therapy, Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 13(6), 2012, 226-240.
52. Shinichiro Mori, Kouichi Shibayama, Katsuyuki Tanimoto, Motoki Kumagai, Yuka Matsuzaki, Takuji
Furukawa, Taku Inaniwa, Toshiyuki Shirai, Koji Noda, Hiroshi Tsuji, and Tadashi Kamada, First
clinical experience in carbon-ion scanning beam therapy: retrospective analysis of patient positional
accuracy, Journal of Radiation Research 53(5), 2012, 760-768.
53. Shinichiro Mori, Taku Inaniwa, Motoki Kumagai, Tsunekazu Kuwae, Yuka Matsuzaki, Takuji
Furukawa, Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, Development of digital reconstructed radiography
software at new treatment facility for carbon-ion beam scanning of National Institute of Radiological
Sciences, Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine 35(2), 2012, 221-229.
54. Taku Inaniwa, Takuji Furukawa, Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Shinichiro Mori, Kota Mizushima, ShinjiSato, Toshiyuki Toshito, Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, Evaluation of hybrid depth scanning forcarbon-ion radiotherapy, Medical Physics 39(5), 2012, 2820-2825.

55. Yoshiyuki Iwata, Koji Noda, Toshiyuki Shirai, Takeshi Murakami, Takuji Furukawa, Shinichiro Mori,
Takashi Fujita, Akifumi Itano, Kouichi Shoda, Kota Mizushima, Tetsuya Fujimoto, Toru Ogitsu,
Naoyuki Amemiya, Tomofumi Orikasa, Shigeki Takayama, et al., Design of a superconducting rotating
gantry for heavy-ion therapy, Physical Review Accelerator and Beams 15(4), 2012, 044701.
56. Takeshi Himukai, Takuji Furukawa, Eri Takeshita, Taku Inaniwa, Kota Mizushima, Ken Katagiri, andYoshihisa Takada, Spreading of a heavy ion beam with the dual-ring double scattering method, Nuclear
Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 269(24), 2011, 2891-2894.
57. Tetsuhito Kadowaki, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Koji Noda, Eiichi Takada, Toshiyuki Shirai, Takuji Furukawa,
Hiroshi Uchiyama, and Tetsuya Fujimoto, Development of synchrotron control for Heavy-Ion Medical
Accelerators, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 269(24), 2011,
2901-2904.
58. Ken Katagiri, Takuji Furukawa, Kota Mizushima, Hiroshi Uchiyama, Eri Takeshita, Takeshi
Himukai, Shinji Sato, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Toshiyuki Shirai, and Koji Noda, Beam stability improvementof the HIMAC synchrotron using a feed-forward system for magnet power supplies, Nuclear
Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B, 269(24), 2011, 2905-2910.
59. Kota Mizushima, Shinji Sato, Toshiyuki Shirai, Takuji Furukawa, Ken Katagiri, Eri Takeshita,
Yoshiyuki Iwata, Takeshi Himukai, and Koji Noda, Development of beam current control system in
RF-knockout slow extraction, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B
269(24), 2011, 2915-2918.
60. Eri Takeshita, Takuji Furukawa, Taku Inaniwa, Shinji Sato, Takeshi Himukai, Toshiyuki Shirai, andKoji Noda, A fluorescent screen + CCD system for quality assurance of therapeutic scanned ion beams,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 269(24), 2011, 2936-2940.
61. Koji Noda, Takuji Furukawa, Tetsuya Fujimoto, Shigekazu Fukuda, Taku Inaniwa, Takeshi Himukai,
Yoshiyuki Iwata, Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Ken Katagiri, Atsushi Kitagawa, Shinichi Minohara, Tomohiro
Miyoshi, Shinichiro Mori, Takeshi Murakami, Yoshinobu Sano, Shinji Sato, Toshiyuki Shirai, Eiichi
Takada, Yuka Takei, and Eri Takeshita, Recent progress on new treatment research project at HIMAC,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 269(24), 2011, 2924-2927.
62. Taku Inaniwa, Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Takuji Furukawa, and Azusa Hasegawa, A robust algorithm ofintensity modulated proton therapy for critical tissue sparing and target coverage, Physics in Medicine& Biology 56(15), 2011, 4749-4770.
63. Ken Katagiri, Takuji Furukawa, and Koji Noda, Numerical studies of transient gain reduction process
in a multi-wire proportional chamber, Review of Scientific Instruments 82(5), 2011, 053303.
64. Kota Mizushima, Toshiyuki Shirai, Takuji Furukawa, and Koji Noda, Making beam spill lesssensitive to power supply ripple in resonant slow extraction, Nuclear Instruments and Methods inPhysics Research Section A 638(1), 2011, 19-23.
65. Taku Inaniwa, Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Takuji Furukawa, and Koji Noda, Optimization algorithm foroverlapping-field plans of scanned ion beam therapy with reduced sensitivity to range and setup
uncertainties, Physics in Medicine & Biology 56(6), 2011, 1653-1669.

66. Yoshiyuki Iwata, Tetsuhito Kadowaki, Hiroshi Uchiyama, Tetsuya Fujimoto, Eiichi Takada, Toshiyuki
Shirai, Takuji Furukawa, Kota Mizushima, Eri Takeshita, Ken Katagiri, Shinji Sato, Yoshinobu Sano,and Koji Noda, Multiple-energy operation with extended flat tops at HIMAC, Nuclear Instruments andMethods in Physics Research Section A 624(1), 2010, 33-38.
67. Taku Inaniwa, Takuji Furukawa, Yuki Kase, Naruhiro Matsufuji, Toshiyuki Toshito, Yoshitaka
Matsumoto, Yoshiya Furusawa, and Koji Noda, Treatment planning for a scanned carbon beam with amodified microdosimetric kinetic model, Physics in Medicine & Biology 55(22), 2010, 6721-6737.
68. Ken Katagiri, Takuji Furukawa, Eri Takeshita, and Koji Noda, Numerical analysis of the space charge
effect in a MWPC, Journal of Plasma and Fusion Research SERIES 9, 2010, 614-619.
69. Shinichi Minohara, Shigekazu Fukuda, Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Yuka Takei, Takuji Furukawa, Taku
Inaniwa, Naruhiro Matsufuji, Shinichiro Mori, and Koji Noda, Recent Innovations in Carbon-Ion
Radiotherapy, Journal of Radiation Research 51(4), 2010, 385-392.
70. Kota Mizushima, Toshiyuki Shirai, Takuji Furukawa, Shinji Sato, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Koji Noda, andHiroshi Uchiyama, Reduction of uncontrollable spilled beam in RF-knockout slow extraction, Nuclear
Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A 606(3), 2009, 325-329.
71. Taku Inaniwa, Takuji Furukawa, Ai Nagano, Shinji Sato, Naoya Saotome, Koji Noda, and Tatsuaki
Kanai, Field-size effect of physical doses in carbon-ion scanning using range shifter plates, Medical
Physics 36(7), 2009, 2889-2897.
72. Taiga Yamaya, Taku Inaniwa, Shinichiro Mori, Takuji Furukawa, Shinichi Minohara, Eiji Yoshida,
Fumihiko Nishikido, Kengo Shibuya, Naoko Inadama, and Hideo Murayama, Imaging simulations ofan "OpenPET" geometry with shifting detector rings, Radiological Physics and Technology 2(1), 2009,62-69.
73. Atsushi Kitagawa, Takashi Fujita, Akifumi Fukumura, Takuji Furukawa, Taku Inaniwa, Yoshiyuki
Iwata, Tatsuaki Kanai, Mitsutaka Kanazawa, Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Yuki Kase, Masataka Komori,
Naruhiro Matsufuji, Shinichi Minohara, Hideyuki Mizuno, Takeshi Murakami, Masayuki Muramatsu,
Koji Noda, Yumiko Ohno, Shinji Sato, Yukio Sato, Eiichi Takada, Kota Torikai, Masami Torikoshi,
Satoru Yamada, and Shunsuke Yonai, Status of a carbon-Ion therapy facility and development foradvanced treatment, Journal of the Korean Physical Society 53(6), 2008, 3709-3713.
74. Takeshi Murakami, Takuji Furukawa, Taku Inaniwa, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Tatsuaki Kanai, Mitsutaka
Kanazawa, Nobuyuki Kanematsu, Atsushi Kitagawa, Yuka Takei, Masataka Komori, Shinichi
Minohara, Masayuki Muramatsu, Koji Noda, Eiichi Takada, Masami Torikoshi, Kota Torikai, andShunsuke Yonai, Compact carbon-therapy facility and next-generation irradiation scheme, Radiation
Physics and Chemistry 77(10-12), 2008-12, 1148-1152.
75. Tetsuya Nakanishi, Takuji Furukawa, and Koji Noda, Characteristics of extracted beam from asynchrotron using a fast Q-magnet assisted by RF-knockout, Nuclear Instruments and Methods inPhysics Research Section B 266(10), 2008, 2169-2172.
76. Koji Noda, Takuji Furukawa, Tetsuya Fujimoto, Taku Inaniwa, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Tatsuaki Kanai,
Mitsutaka Kanazawa, Shinichi Minohara, Tomohiro Miyoshi, Takeshi Murakami, Yoshinobu Sano,
Shinji Sato, Eiichi Takada, Yuka Takei, Kota Torikai, and Masami Torikoshi, New treatment facility forheavy-ion cancer therapy at HIMAC, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B
266(10), 2008, 2182-2185.

77. Taku Inaniwa, Takuji Furukawa, Shinji Sato, Takehiro Tomitani, Masanao Kobayash, Shinichi
Minohara, Koji Noda, and Tatsuaki Kanai, Development of treatment planning for scanning irradiation
at HIMAC, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 266(10), 2008,
2194-2198.
78. Taku Inaniwa, Takuji Furukawa, Naruhiro Matsufuji, Toshiyuki Kohno, Shinji Sato, Koji Noda, andTatsuaki Kanai, Clinical ion beams: semi-analytical calculation of their quality, Physics in Medicine &Biology 52(24), 2007, 7261-7279.
79. Taku Inaniwa, Takuji Furukawa, Takehiro Tomitani, Shinji Sato, Koji Noda, and Tatsuaki Kanai,
Optimization for fast-scanning irradiation in particle therapy, Medical Physics 34(8), 2007, 3302-3311.
80. Shinji Sato, Takuji Furukawa, and Koji Noda, Dynamic intensity control system with RF-knockout
slow-extraction in the HIMAC synchrotron, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research
Section A 574(2), 2007, 226-231.
81. Koji Noda, Takuji Furukawa, Takashi Fujisawa, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Tatsuaki Kanai, Mitsutaka
Kanazawa, Atsushi Kitagawa, Masataka Komori, Shinichi Minohara, Takeshi Murakami, Masayuki
Muramatsu, Shinji Sato, Yuka Takei, Mutsumi Tashiro, Masami Torikoshi, Satoru Yamada, and Ken
Yusa, New Accelerator Facility for Carbon-Ion Cancer-Therapy, Journal of Radiation Research
48(Suppl.A), 2007, A43-A54.
82. Koji Noda, Takuji Furukawa, Yoshiyuki Iwata, Tatsuaki Kanai, Mitsutaka Kanazawa, Nobuyuki
Kanematsu, Atsushi Kitagawa, Masataka Komori, Shinichi Minohara,Takeshi Murakami, Masayuki
Muramatsu, Shinji Sato, Yukio Sato, Shinji Shibuya, Masami Torikoshi, and Satoru Yamada, Design ofcarbon therapy facility based on 10 years experience at HIMAC, Nuclear Instruments and Methods inPhysics Research Section A 562(2), 2006, 1038-1041.
83. Tetsuya Nakanishi, Takuji Furukawa, Katsuhisa Yoshida, Koji Noda, Slow beam-extraction method
using a fast Q-magnet assisted by RF-knockout, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research
Section A 553(3), 2005, 400-406.
84. Michel Beutelspacher, Fadil Hicham, Takuji Furukawa, Manfred Grieser, Akira Noda, Koji Noda,
Dirk Schwalm, and Andreas H Wolf, Electron cooling experiments at the heavy ion storage ring TSR,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A 532(1–2), 2004, 123-128.
85. Koji Noda, Shinnji Shibuya, Daisuke Tann, Shiro Ninomiya, Tomonori Uesugi, Takuji Furukawa,Toshihiro Honma, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Yoshinori Hashimoto, Takashi Fujisawa, Hiroshi Uchiyama,
Takehiro Uesugi, Masayuki Muramatsu, Evgeniy M Syresin, et al., Electron cooling of bunched ion
beam at NIRS-HIMAC, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A 532(1–2),
2004, 129-136.
86. Masataka Komori, Takuji Furukawa, Tatsuaki Kanai, and Koji Noda, Optimization of Spiral-Wobbler
System for Heavy-Ion Radiotherapy, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 43(9R), 2004, 6463-6467.
87. Koji Noda, Takuji Furukawa, Shinji Shibuya, Masayuki Muramatsu, Tomonori Uesugi, Mitsutaka
Kanazawa, Masami Torikoshi, Eiichi Takada, and Satoru Yamada, Source of spill ripple in the RF-KO
slow-extraction method with FM and AM, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research
Section A 492, 2002, 241-252.