Proton therapy provider Ion Beam Applications (IBA Molecular Imaging) said that proton therapy center Westdeutsches Protonentherapiezentrum Essen has treated its first patient at the Essen, Germany facility.
The state-of-the-art center boasts four treatment rooms, three gantries using isocentric rotational frames, and one fixed-beam room that offers advanced options for patient positioning and irradiation technologies that include IBA's pencil-beam scanning (PBS) technology.
