ITN Associate Editor Jeff Zagoudis speaks with Mark Pankuch, Ph.D., director of physics and dosimetry at the Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center, about the differences between...
Proton Therapy
Proton therapy, or proton beam therapy, is a type of radiation therapy used to treat cancer. At a high energy, the positively charged particles can destroy cancer cells.
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ITN Associate Editor Jeff Zagoudis speaks with Bill Hartsell, M.D., medical director at the Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center,...
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This is a 360 photo view behind the gantry room at the Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center in Warrenville, Ill.
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This is a 360 view of Treatment Room 3 (of 4) at the Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center in Warrenville, Ill.
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This is a 360 photo view inside the gantry room at the Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center in Warrenville, Ill.
News | Treatment Planning | March 19, 2019
March 19, 2019 — Zuid-Oost Nederland Protonen Therapie Centrum (ZON-PTC), Maastricht, Netherlands, recently treated...
News | Proton Therapy | March 13, 2019
March 13, 2019 — The number of new particle therapy rooms ordered worldwide dropped by almost 20 percent in 2018,...
Videos | Proton Therapy | March 01, 2019
ITN Associate Editor Jeff Zagoudis speaks with Mark Pankuch, Ph.D., director of physics and dosimetry at the...
360 Photos | 360 View Photos | February 28, 2019
This is a 360 photo view behind the gantry room at the ...
360 Photos | 360 View Photos | February 28, 2019
This is a 360 view of Treatment Room 3 (of 4) at the ...
360 Photos | 360 View Photos | February 27, 2019
This is a 360 photo view inside the gantry room at the...
News | Proton Therapy | February 01, 2019
February 1, 2019 — Home to the largest and most comprehensive...
News | Proton Therapy | January 28, 2019
January 28, 2019 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA) announced the opening of the Apollo Proton Cancer Centre in...
Sponsored Content | Videos | Radiation Therapy | January 18, 2019
Join Chris Toth, president of Varian’s Oncology Systems business, for a look at product introductions for 2018 plus a...
Image courtesy of The Ohio State University James Comprehensive Cancer Center
News | Proton Therapy | November 21, 2018
November 21, 2018 — The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and...
Videos | ASTRO | November 08, 2018
ITN Editor Dave Fornell took a tour of some of the most innovative technologies on display on the expo floor at the...
Laurent Levy, CEO of Nanobiotix, explains the use of his company's nanoparticles to enhance the radiation sensitivity of tumor tissue to improve patient outcomes. The images show the initial tumor and enhancement areas due to the nanoparticles and the resulting outcomes following treatment.
Blog | ASTRO | November 08, 2018 | Dave Fornell, Editor
Here are a few of the radiation oncology technology advancement takeaways seen at the 2018...
A model of the new, compact, single-room Varian ProBeam 360 system. The system is an example of the trend in proton therapy toward single-room, smaller systems and away from multi-room treatment centers.
Feature | Proton Therapy | November 01, 2018 | Dave Fornell, Editor
A few of the big takeaways from the American...
News | Proton Therapy | October 29, 2018
October 29, 2018 — At the 2018 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting, IBA announced the...
