IBA installs proton therapy system in Russia

Manjula Puthenedam, PhD, | | Health Imaging | Molecular Imaging
IBA (Ion Beam Applications) will be installing the first gantry-equipped proton therapy center in Dimitrovgrad, Russia. The Federal State Unitary Enterprise, “Federal Center of Nuclear Medicine Projects Design and Development” of the Federal Medico-Biological Agency of Russia has decided in favor of IBA to install a proton therapy center for the Ulianovsk region.

The center will be equipped with two gantry rooms, one dual-beam treatment room and one small fixed beam room dedicated to eye treatments, said the Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium-based IBA.

Manjula Puthenedam, PhD,

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