ProTom Proton Therapy Technology Gets a Boost

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Proton therapy systems are exceedingly difficult to develop. While

currently dominated by European and Japanese manufacturers, like the

Belgian company IBA, German ACCEL Instruments, and Hitachi of Japan, US proton therapy developers are making great strides. Enter ProTom International,

a Texas-based company, which just announced collaborative agreement

with MIT's Bates Linear Accelerator Center "for the testing and

calibration of an advanced proton synchrotron technology for cancer

treatment."Click on below link for full story:<http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/09/protom_proton_therapy_technology_gets_a_boost.html>