INST ALLA TION OF CYCLOTRON PLUS THREE GANTRIES WEIGHING 120 TONS With a total value of EUR 100 million and a lead-time of 3 years, the construction of a Proton Therapy Centre in the University Hospital in Essen (North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany) represents the biggest medical project in German history. For IBA, based in Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium), Convoi has installed a Cyclotron plus 3 connected isocentric, rotating “patient chambers” called gantries (diameter of 10 metres and a weight of 120 tonnes). IBA delivers solutions with unrivalled precision in the ?eld of cancer diagnostics and treatment. Proton therapy is the most advanced form of clinical treatment for cancer through radiation. There are all but a few of such systems in the world and the system at the University Hospital in Ess

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