Proton Therapy Machine Articles & Analysis
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Ackerman Cancer Center (ACC), the world’s first and only physician-owned proton therapy center, has reached a significant milestone in cancer care with the treatment of their 2,000th proton therapy patient. The Mevion-equipped center treated its first proton therapy patient in April of 2015 and reached its 1,000th patient milestone in October of 2018. “Congratulations to the ...
Mevion Medical Systems today announced it has been selected by Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology to equip their new proton therapy center with a MEVION S250i Proton Therapy System® in Wuhan, China. The system at Tongji Hospital will feature Mevion’s industry leading HYPERSCAN® Pencil Beam Scanning (PBS) technology, ...
Mevion Medical Systems and Proton International announce the selection of the MEVION S250i Proton Therapy System with HYPERSCAN Pencil Beam Scanning (PBS) to equip the UT Health San Antonio Proton Therapy and Research Center. It will be the first proton therapy system in San Antonio and South Texas to provide this advanced alternative to conventional radiation therapy for cancer. Proton ...
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501, ”Hitachi”) today announced that “Shonan Kamakura Advanced Medical Center” at Shonan Kamakura General Hospital of Tokushukai Medical Group, where Hitachi's compact proton therapy system (hereafter, “the system”) has been installed, has commenced treatment with the system on 31 January 2022. This is the first order for Hitachi’s ...
Mevion Medical Systems is pleased to announce it has signed a contract with Kansas City Urology Care (KCUC) for the purchase of a MEVION S250i Proton Therapy System with HYPERSCAN Pencil Beam Scanning technology. Proton therapy is a precise form of radiation therapy that can reduce the amount of unnecessary radiation exposure to healthy tissue, which has the potential to reduce side ...
medPhoton’s ceiling mounted ImagingRing integrated to the MEVION S250i Proton Therapy System with HYPERSCAN Pencil Beam Scanning at Zuid-Oost Nederland Protonen Therapie Centrum, (ZON-PTC) at the MAASTRO Clinic in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Patient treatment has begun on February 8, 2019 as a result of a close collaboration between Mevion, Maastro Clinic and medPhoton. “Proton ...