This package includes an exclusive tour of the Proton Beam facility by Dr. Jon Kruse, a medical physicist who helped in the development and construction and assists in the ongoing operation of the facility. In addition a representative from Hitachi, the manufacturing company of the proton beam machine will be present to answer questions. The tour will need to be done on a Saturday or Sunday morning (Saturday is recommended. The guests will be able to go into the accelerator room to visit the synchrotron that accelerate protons to 60% of the speed of light. This is a rare opportunity as the synchrotron runs continuously from 6:00 a.m. until well after midnight five days a week and so it is rare for this room to be accessible. In addition the tour will allow the participants to go behind the gantry in the treatment room and see the 110 ton gantry that rotates about the patient. People on the tour the will have an opportunity to use the controls to rotate the gantry and move the robotic couch that patient is positioned on for treatment. In addition guests will be able to do a proton treatment plan with one of the guests being able to design a treatment volume on the treatment planning computer (the it could be their initials for example). The group will create a treatment plan and then go to the gantry room and deliver it to a piece of film that the guest can take home with their initials 'drawn' with the proton beam.

Time for the tour will need to be mutually agreed up between the winner and Dr. Kruse. Offer expires 10/1/2020.

"It is hard to imagine the scale of the equipment and the complexity of the science involved in each treatment delivered to a proton beam therapy patient. We got a keen sense of the scale and precision of the mechanics during our behind the scenes tour, but we also heard about how individual patients-including the smallest of them-are cared for when they are in the treatment rooms. It's an amazing place!"

"No words can describe how awestruck we were. The tour guides explained the process in words that non-medical people could understand. It was an amazing tour. We are fortunate to have the therapy and the dedicated staff."