On Sept. 9, Zevacor Molecular, a healthcare firm on the southeast side of Noblesville in the Saxony Corporate Campus, welcomed the nation’s first commercial cyclotron.
Weighing in at 140 tons, the cyclotron will manufacture ion beams to be used in the treatment of cancer. This type of treatment is said to have minimal effects on healthy tissue in cancer patients.
The “Cyclone 70P” was manufactured in Belgium by Ion Beam Appications and is the first commercial 70 MeV cyclotron being used for medical purposed in the U.S.
