Current proton therapy uses cyclotrons or synchrotrons nearly 10 ft in diameter and weighing up to several hundred tons. An enormous gantry and bending magnets focus and direct the beams. Now, thanks ...
Dr. Henry Tsai, Radiation Oncologist with Princeton Radiation Oncology, watches patient Bob Jones, 68 of North Brunswick, from an observation room at the ProCure Proton Therapy Center's gantry.
The first compact proton therapy system -- one that would fit in any major cancer center and cost a fifth as much as a full-scale machine -- is one step closer to reality. Proton therapy is considered ...
Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan is poised to become the latest proton therapy center in the United States having recently scored a Proteus One Gantry system that precisely directs ...