UW Health has selected Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, “Hitachi”) to provide the infrastructure to support proton therapy at UW Health Eastpark Medical Center.
Hitachi will provide equipment and technology to support UW Health’s traditional proton therapy room equipped with spot scanning irradiation technology, a 360° rotating gantry with cone-beam CT*1, and Real-time image Gated Proton Therapy (RGPT)*2, as well as the revolutionary upright proton therapy coming to UW Health from Leo Cancer Care, according to Dr. Paul Harari, radiation oncologist, UW Health, and chair of the Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
