Patent ID: 8462912

Claim:
An apparatus for particle therapy, comprising: a support article configured to support an object while the object is undergoing an examination and a treatment; an examination apparatus for examining the object, comprising: an X-ray source configured to emit X-ray radiation onto the object, the X-ray radiation traversing a first plane substantially parallel to a plane of a floor of an examination room within which at least a portion of the apparatus for particle therapy resides, and a detector array configured to detect X-ray radiation that traversed the object; and a treatment apparatus for treating the object, comprising: an irradiation component configured to emit particle radiation onto the object, the particle radiation traversing a second plane substantially parallel to the plane of the floor, the examination apparatus and the treatment apparatus substantially fixed in the examination room during the examination and the treatment, the support article configured to rotate the object relative to the examination apparatus and the treatment apparatus, and the examination apparatus configured to not occlude the treatment apparatus relative to the object during the examination of the object.