# OnCo record carbon-ion-synchrotrons (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/technologies/carbon-ion-synchrotrons/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "carbon-ion-synchrotrons" ;
  schema:name "Carbon-ion synchrotrons and facilities"@en ;
  schema:description "Carbon ions are twelve times heavier than protons, so every clinical facility uses a synchrotron ring tens of metres across and fixed or huge rotating beamlines. Only about a dozen centres exist, in Japan, Germany, Italy, Austria, China, South Korea and Taiwan."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/carbon-ion-synchrotrons/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_therapy> ;
  schema:citation <https://www.ptcog.site/index.php/facilities-in-operation-public>, <https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2020.00082> ;
  onco:status "established" ;
  onco:tag "machines-wave" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/technologies/proton-therapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/bnct/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/hypofractionated-radiotherapy/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/chordoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/sarcoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/pancreatic/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/hcc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/osteosarcoma/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/devices/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/carbon-ion/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/proton-therapy-systems/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/intensity-modulated-proton-therapy/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/toshiba-energy-systems/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/hitachi/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/heidelberg-nct/>, <https://onco.cc/institutions/gunma-heavy-ion-medical-center/>, <https://onco.cc/institutions/qst-hospital/>, <https://onco.cc/institutions/fuscc/>, <https://onco.cc/institutions/severance/>, <https://onco.cc/institutions/taipei-veterans-general-hospital/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-malouff-front-oncol/> .