About the Facility
The Roberts
Proton Therapy Center will be comprised of up
to five treatment rooms, four gantries (90-ton
rotational machines designed to deliver the therapeutic
beam at the precise angle prescribed by the physician),
and one fixed-beam room. The Roberts
Proton Therapy Center will have
the most advanced options available for patient
positioning and comfort, and will also include
a separate research room.
Approximately 75,000 square feet in size, the
Roberts Proton Therapy Center is located in a
mostly underground building interconnected to
to the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine.
The
Roberts
Proton Therapy Center will be equipped by the Ion
Beam Application, S.A. (IBA) company based
in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium and will cost approximately
$140 million. The building was designed by Building
design by Tsoi,
Kobus and Associates and has
been contracted with Driscoll / McKissack.
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