Organization and operation of multi particle therapy facilities: the Marburg Ion-Beam Therapy Center, Germany (MIT)

The Marburg Ion-Beam Therapy Center (MIT) is one of two particle therapy centers in Germany that enables the treatment of patients with both protons and carbon ions. The facility was build by Siemens Healthineers and is one of only two centers worldwide built by Siemens (Marburg, Germany and Shanghai, China). The present report provides an overview of technical and clinical operations as well as research activities at MIT. The MIT was completed in 2011 and uses a synchrotron for accelerating protons and carbon ions up to energies of 250 MeV/u and 430 MeV/u respectively. Three treatment rooms with a fixed horizontal beam-line and one room with a 45 degree beam angle are available. Since the start of clinical operations in 2015, around 2.500 patients have been treated at MIT, about 40