Radiation therapy software developer RaySearch's RayStation carbon ion therapy treatment planning has been used with a patient in Austria at MedAustron, a center that specializes in ion therapy and research.
This is the first Austrian patient to undergo the treatment, RaySearch said. The treatment took place on July 2 in a patient with an adenocystic carcinoma of the left ear.
MedAustron is headquartered in Wiener Neustadt, according to RaySearch.
![A 53-year-old patient (patient number four) with a recurrent pituitary adenoma with extension of a cystic component of disease to the medial temporal lobe apparent on MRI (contoured in blue), and extension of disease to the left sphenoid bone and orbital apex apparent on [68Ga]Ga-DOTA-TATE (contoured in yellow).](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/04/pituitary-tumor.QGsEnyB4bU.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
