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FunctionArchitectural models of gantries were used to illustrate how beam lines would be brought to the patient treatment room.
Historical AttributesThis corkscrew gantry was designed and patented by Andreas Koehler, who also built this model in the late 1980s at the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory. It was built at Loma Linda University, near Los Angeles, California.
ProvenanceHarvard University Cyclotron
Published ReferencesA. M. Koehler, "Preliminary Design Study for a Corkscrew Gantry," Proceedings of the Fifth PTCOG Meeting and International Workshop on Biomedical Accelerators, Report No. LBL-22962, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1987): 147-158.