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IBA reveals all
17.47 Monday CT: Early this morning, a crowd was gathering at IBA’s booth to find out exactly what the Belgian particle-therapy company has been keeping under wraps. So what was hiding under that cover? IBA’s staff dramatically swept the cloth away to reveal…its Universal Nozzle.
It may not look particularly impressive, but the Universal Nozzle is a nifty piece of kit. In simple terms, the nozzle can be used to perform four different types of proton therapy: single scattering, double scattering, uniform scanning and pencil-beam scanning. What this means is that users wanting to perform these different techniques no longer have to build separate treatment rooms for each one.
“The Universal Nozzle is a way of delivering protons that allows you to do scanning and scattering techniques in one room,” announced Stephen Sledge, IBA’s marketing director.
By the way, if you were there, and you’re still wondering what to do with the small green objects that IBA was handing out, just peer into the end - the effect is quite startling.
