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About ProCure’s Inclined Beam Technology

In March 2010, The ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma City became the first proton therapy center in the world to use inclined beam technology for the treatment of cancer and other tumors with protons. This unique delivery system is able to be used in treating most tumors that normally require the use of a gantry, a much larger and costly piece of equipment that has been the industry standard in proton therapy.

  • Inclined beam technology is being used in the CDH Proton Center, A ProCure Center, in suburban Chicago, and installation is planned for ProCure’s third and fourth centers currently under construction in Somerset, N.J., and Seattle. The technology was developed by ProCure scientists at its Training and Development Center, Bloomington, Ind., and IBA, (Ion Beam Applications S.A.), Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, and is available to other proton centers through IBA.
  • With the development of the inclined beam technology, there are now three ways to direct proton beams to tumors: using a stationary fixed beam; using a gantry, a 200-ton piece of equipment that can deliver a proton beam from any angle as it rotates 360 degrees around a patient; or using an inclined beam, which delivers protons to tumors from two angles: horizontal and 60 degrees inclined from the horizontal.
  • The inclined beam can treat approximately 80 percent of the tumors treated with a gantry and fits in a space about half the size of a gantry room, allowing the footprint of the proton centers to be much smaller and making construction less costly. The inclined beam also requires less commissioning time and allows for easier maintenance.
  • ProCure scientists at its Training and Development Center are inventing clinical innovations technologies for proton therapy that will improve treatment and reduce the cost and space required in building centers. In addition to the inclined beam technology, ProCure has introduced a robotic patient positioning system.

Web site: www.procure.com/il

Media Contact: Sky Opila, PCI
312/558-1770
sopila@pcipr.com