Radiopharmaceutical firm Ion Beam Applications (IBA) of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, has won a contract to build a proton therapy center in Krakow, Poland.
IBA will supply a cyclotron and other technology to the Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Science (IFJ), which is building the Bronowice Cyclotron Center. The center will include one fixed-beam treatment room and one research room.
The project is the first stage of the Polish National Centre for Hadron Radiotherapy (NCRH), and the value of the contract -- including cyclotron, technical equipment, and building construction -- is valued between 25 million and 30 million euros ($32.9 million and $39.5 million).
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