The History

X-rays are discovered and their medical effectiveness has been proved. Vincent Czerny establishes a research center in Heidelberg and recognizes that ...

Over the years, radiotherapy has established itself. Meanwhile, the physicist Sir William Henry Bragg gained new insights into ionized particles: Shor...

The Czerny Clinic in Heidelberg for Radiotherapy and Radiooncology, which emerged from the Samaritan House, becomes one of the largest in the world. I...

Further technological developments lead to advances in ion irradiation. The invention of the raster scan method allows high precision in three-dimensi...

At GSI Helmholtzzentrum first treatments of patients with ion beams take place. The majority of patients can be cured. Based on these successes, the H...

The Heidelberg HIT is constantly developing: over time, organs that move in the body can also be irradiated. In 2012, a number of 1000 patients have b...