# Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions

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## TL;DR

Toshiba builds carbon-ion therapy facilities, including the superconducting rotating gantry at HIMAC in Chiba and the heavy-ion centres in Kanagawa, Yamagata and at Yonsei in Seoul.

## Summary

Toshiba's energy systems subsidiary, spun out of the parent in 2017, carries the group's accelerator business. It built the world's first superconducting rotating gantry for carbon ions at the QST HIMAC facility, and supplied the heavy-ion synchrotron facilities at Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yamagata University and the Yonsei Heavy Ion Therapy Center at Severance Hospital, which opened in 2023 as South Korea's first carbon-ion centre. OnCo links it to carbon-ion synchrotrons and carbon-ion therapy.

## Fields

- Kind: Company
- Last checked: 2026-09-17
- Also known as: Toshiba heavy-ion therapy
- Tags: machines-wave
- HQ: Kawasaki
- Type: devices
- Website: https://www.global.toshiba

## Sources

- Official website: https://www.global.toshiba
- PTCOG: particle therapy facilities in operation: https://www.ptcog.site/index.php/facilities-in-operation-public

## Connected records

- fronts: [Devices & Physical Therapies](https://onco.cc/fronts/devices/), [Radiation Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/)
- technologies: [Carbon-ion synchrotrons and facilities](https://onco.cc/technologies/carbon-ion-synchrotrons/), [Carbon-ion therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/carbon-ion/)
- institutions: [QST Hospital (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)](https://onco.cc/institutions/qst-hospital/), [Severance Hospital, Yonsei University](https://onco.cc/institutions/severance/)

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