Radiopharmaceutical provider Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has divested its ownership interest in a proton therapy center at the University Hospital of Essen (UK Essen).
The move finalizes IBA's transfer of the proton therapy center in Essen from Striba Protonentherapiezentrum, the 50/50 joint venture between IBA and Strabag, the contracted supplier of the center.
IBA no longer has exposure to any further disputes based on the old contractual structure and provisions now that the transfer of the center has been finalized, the company said.
In addition, a long-term operations and maintenance contract has been signed between IBA and the UK Essen, as well as agreed compensation for past operations and maintenance services rendered by IBA in 2013, according to the vendor.
No additional profit and loss effects beyond what was stated in the company's 2013 first half earnings release are expected in 2013 or in the 2014 IBA full year financial statements, other than recurring revenues for the service agreement, the company added.
![Overview of the study design. (A) The fully automated deep learning framework was developed to estimate body composition (BC) (defined as subcutaneous adipose tissue [SAT] in liters; visceral adipose tissue [VAT] in liters; skeletal muscle [SM] in liters; SM fat fraction [SMFF] as a percentage; and intramuscular adipose tissue [IMAT] in deciliters) from MRI. The fully automated framework comprised one model (model 1) to quantify different BC measures (SAT, VAT, SM, SMFF, and IMAT) as three-dimensional (3D) measures from whole-body MRI scans. The second model (model 2) was trained to identify standardized anatomic landmarks along the craniocaudal body axis (z coordinate field), which allowed for subdividing the whole-body measures into different subregions typically examined on clinical routine MRI scans (chest, abdomen, and pelvis). (B) BC was quantified from whole-body MRI in over 66,000 individuals from two large population-based cohort studies, the UK Biobank (UKB) (36,317 individuals) and the German National Cohort (NAKO) (30,291 individuals). Bar graphs show age distribution by sex and cohort. BMI = body mass index. (C) After the performance assessment of the fully automated framework, the change in BC measures, distributions, and profiles across age decades were investigated. Age-, sex-, and height-adjusted body composition reference curves were calculated and made publicly available in a web-based z-score calculator (https://circ-ml.github.io).](https://img.auntminnieeurope.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/05/body-comp.XgAjTfPj1W.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
