From medicalphysicsweb.org, 11 June 2014
STOCKHOLM, 10 June 2014 – On May 27, 2014 the first patient was treated with the Pencil Beam Scanning (PBS) treatment technique at the Provision Center for Proton Therapy in Knoxville, Tennessee, the state’s first and only proton therapy treatment facility. The clinical patient treatment plans were created entirely on RayStation®, RaySearch’s highly advanced treatment planning and dose tracking software platform and delivered on the IBA proton system.
PBS is the most sophisticated delivery technique in proton therapy. It enables Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy (IMPT) that allows clinicians to target a cancerous tumor by controlling both the intensity and the spatial distribution with millimeter precision. Earlier this year, the first patients were treated using the Uniform Scanning technique at Provision. Read more >>
You can learn more about proton therapy on this website in the section Health & Medicine.
