US 12,303,713 B2
Treatment preparation apparatus comprising a peripheral simulator and treatment equipment for a boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT)
Shinya Kusuoka, Ehime (JP)
Assigned to Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/704,758.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-053309 (JP), filed on Mar. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0310244 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. A61N 5/10 (2006.01); G16H 20/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61N 5/103 (2013.01) [A61N 5/1048 (2013.01); A61N 5/1049 (2013.01); A61N 5/1075 (2013.01); A61N 5/1077 (2013.01); A61N 5/1078 (2013.01); G16H 20/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); A61B 2090/3945 (2016.02); A61N 2005/109 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A treatment preparation apparatus that is provided in a preparation chamber for preparing for an irradiation in an irradiation chamber for irradiating an irradiation target with a neutron ray, comprising:
an object to which the irradiation target is to be fixed so as to fix a relative position of the irradiation target to the object; and
a peripheral simulator that simulates a peripheral portion of the object after the object is disposed in the irradiation chamber, when fixing the relative position of the irradiation target to the object in the preparation chamber,
wherein the peripheral simulator is a structure simulating the peripheral portion, and
the peripheral simulator includes a sensor that detects a contact with the structure, and an output portion that outputs a detection result by the sensor.