Varian Medical Systems is highlighting an educational milestone at the Maryland Proton Treatment Center (MPTC), with more than 150 medical professionals completing proton therapy training using the company's ProBeam image-guided intensity-modulated therapy device.
Over the past two years, MPTC has hosted professionals from the U.S. and 14 other countries, offering a clinical course for physicians and physicists; targeted clinical observation courses for physicians, medical physicists, and radiation therapists; and visiting opportunities such as a two-day site program for radiation oncology professionals.
MPTC was the first location in the eastern U.S. to provide ProBeam image-guided intensity-modulated proton therapy and to include pencil-beam scanning in every treatment room, according to Varian.
