The green gantry, where I am receiving my treatments, is the newest of all the gantries. It has its own dedicated cyclotron. Here are some pictures Taylor took from her computer using my iPhone. The equipment was shipped over from Belgium, and it arrived at the Jacksonville docks, and they had to truck it to Jefferson St.
The crane they used to lift the equipment weighed 1 million tons and it took five days to assemble and then five days to disassemble it.
The map shows the equipment’s route from the docks to the institute.
And here’s the truck they used. See if you can count the number of wheels on this truck
The new cyclotron weighs 50 tons or 120,000 pounds the gantry weighs 100 tons or 220,000 pounds. Here we see the crane lowering the new cyclotron through the roof of the institute.
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pretty cool! I bet that is one expensive machine..
I’m not sure if it was shipped from Belgium or if it came from the Jacksonville shipyard