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System and method for detecting and correcting defective image output from radiation-damaged video cameras
15 Feb 22
An apparatus for use with a medical system, the medical system comprising a medical device configured to treat and/or image a patient, includes: an input configured to receive an image from a camera, the camera configured to view at least a part of the patient and/or at least a part of the medical system; a processing unit configured to replace a damaged-pixel value in the image corresponding with a damaged pixel in the camera that is damaged due to radiation resulted from an operation of the medical device; and an output for outputting an improved image having less noise compared to the image received from the camera.
Paul Pu Sun, Eric Michael Stimmann
Filed: 1 Jun 20
Utility
Radiation treatment planning and delivery for moving targets in the heart
8 Feb 22
Methods and systems are disclosed for radiating a moving object.
Thilaka Sumanaweera, Patrick Maguire, Edward Gardner
Filed: 30 Sep 20
Utility
Embolic microspheres
1 Feb 22
In some aspects, the disclosure pertains to injectable particles that contain at least one pH-altering agent that is configured to be released from the injectable particles in vivo, upon embolization of an intratumoral artery of a tumor with the injectable particles.
Hongxia Zeng, Bruce R. Forsyth, Hong Cao, Matthew R. DeWitt, Heidi Schwanz
Filed: 12 Jul 18
Utility
Radiation treatment planning real-time user interface
1 Feb 22
A control circuit carries out various actions to facilitate speedy user interaction involving adjustments to radiation dosing that corresponds to a particular mixed radiation treatment plan.
Kenneth B. Thornton
Filed: 13 Dec 19
Design
Dual-monitor computer
25 Jan 22
Filip Vojan, Brian Spatola
Filed: 30 Dec 20
Utility
Blood-tissue Surface Based Radiosurgical Renal Treatment Planning
13 Jan 22
Devices, systems, and methods for planning radiosurgical treatments for neuromodulating a portion of the renovascular system may be used to plan radiosurgical neuromodulation treatments for conditions or disease associated with elevated central sympathetic drive.
Patrick Maguire, Edward Gardner
Filed: 22 Sep 21
Utility
Methods of Use of Ultra-high Dose Rate Radiation and Therapeutic Agent
13 Jan 22
Methods for treating tumors by administering FLASH radiation and a therapeutic agent to a patient with cancer are disclosed.
Renate PARRY, Eric ABEL, Swati GIRDHANI, Stanley MANSFIELD, Patrick KUPELIAN, Deepak KHUNTIA
Filed: 27 Sep 21
Utility
Cryosurgical Probe with Enhanced Thermal Performance
6 Jan 22
A probe and method of using a probe are disclosed.
Daniel N. Grimm
Filed: 2 Jul 20
Utility
Method for Fabricating Pixelated Scintillators
6 Jan 22
In a method of making pixelated scintillators, an amorphous scintillator material in a molten state is pressed into a plurality of cavities defined by a plurality of walls of a mesh array.
Daniel Shedlock, Josh Star-Lack, Richard Mead
Filed: 21 Sep 21
Utility
Systems, methods, and devices for multi-energy x-ray imaging
4 Jan 22
A system can have an x-ray source that generates a series of individual x-ray pulses for multi-energy imaging.
Arundhuti Ganguly, Gary F. Virshup, Michelle Richmond, Billy Dan Jones
Filed: 21 Apr 20
Utility
Defining Dose Rate for Pencil Beam Scanning
23 Dec 21
The dose rate of voxels within a particle beam (e.g., proton beam) treatment field delivered using pencil beam scanning (PBS) is calculated, and a representative dose rate for the PBS treatment field is reported.
Michael FOLKERTS, Eric ABEL, Simon BUSOLD, Jessica PEREZ, Vidhya KRISHNAMURTHI, C. Clifton LING
Filed: 23 Jun 20
Utility
Radiation Therapy System Using a Digital Tomosynthesis Process for Near Real-time Localization
23 Dec 21
A method of radiation therapy comprises, while a gantry of a radiation therapy system rotates continuously in a first direction through a treatment arc from a first treatment delivery position to a second treatment delivery position, causing an imaging X-ray source mounted on the gantry to direct X-rays through a target volume and receiving a set of X-ray projection images from an X-ray imager mounted on the gantry; determining a current location of the target volume based on the set of X-ray projection images; and while the gantry to continues to rotate to the second treatment delivery position, initiating delivery of a treatment beam of a treatment-delivering X-ray source mounted on the gantry to the target volume, and continuing to cause the gantry to rotate in the first direction from the second treatment delivery position to a third treatment delivery position.
John VAN HETEREN, Liangjia ZHU, Daniel MORF
Filed: 5 Sep 21
Utility
Correlation of Dose and Dose Rate Information to Volume for Radiation Treatment Planning
23 Dec 21
A method used for planning radiation treatment accessing information that includes calculated doses and calculated dose rates for sub-volumes in a treatment target, and also accessing information that includes values of a measure of the sub-volumes as a function of the calculated doses and the calculated dose rates.
Pierre Lansonneur, Perttu NIEMELA, Viljo Petaja, Simon Busold, Michiko Rossi, Matti Sakari Ropo, Michael Folkerts, Jessica Perez, Christel Smith, Adam Harrington, Eric Abel, Lauri HALKO
Filed: 18 May 21
Utility
Method and Apparatus for Performing Irradiation Time Optimization for Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy During Treatment Planning While Maintaining Acceptable Irradiation Plan Quality
9 Dec 21
A computer implemented method of determining a resultant treatment plan for a proton radiation therapy system based on given dose volume constraints, wherein the resultant treatment plan is optimized for treatment time comprises accessing the dose volume constraints and range information, wherein the range information indicates acceptable deviations from the dose volume constraints.
Isabel Huth, Christel Smith, Timo Koponen, Perttu Niemela, Markus Bach, Reynald VANDERSTRATEN
Filed: 20 Aug 21
Utility
Live View Camera for Radiation Therapy
9 Dec 21
An apparatus for use with a medical system, the medical system comprising a medical device configured to treat and/or image a patient, includes: a camera configured to capture an image of a first mirror, wherein the image of the first mirror contains an image of at least a part of the patient and/or an image of at least a part of the medical system; wherein the camera comprises electronics that are not radiation-hard.
Stefan J. THIEME-MARTI, Mathias LEHMANN
Filed: 1 Jun 21
Utility
Bookmarking capability for radiation treatment planning and management
7 Dec 21
A control circuit operably couples to a memory having a plurality of different radiation treatment applications stored therein, a data store having patient data stored therein, and at least a first user interface comprising a first display and a first user input interface.
Wayne Keranen, Beat Markwalder, Marco Meier, Michael Waschbuesch
Filed: 29 Mar 19
Utility
System and Method for Detecting and Correcting Defective Image Output from Radiation-damaged Video Cameras
2 Dec 21
An apparatus for use with a medical system, the medical system comprising a medical device configured to treat and/or image a patient, includes: an input configured to receive an image from a camera, the camera configured to view at least a part of the patient and/or at least a part of the medical system; a processing unit configured to replace a damaged-pixel value in the image corresponding with a damaged pixel in the camera that is damaged due to radiation resulted from an operation of the medical device; and an output for outputting an improved image having less noise compared to the image received from the camera.
Paul Pu SUN, Eric Michael STIMMANN
Filed: 1 Jun 20
Utility
Systems and methods for planning and executing automated multi-axis motion in treatment
23 Nov 21
An apparatus for creating a radiation treatment plan for execution by a radiation treatment machine, includes: a waypoint module configured to obtain imaging waypoint data representing imaging waypoints, the imaging waypoints at least partially defining one or more positions for obtaining images of a patient during a treatment session; a treatment trajectory module configured to obtain treatment data at least partially defining a beam-on direction; a treatment plan generator configured to create the radiation treatment plan based at least in part on the imaging waypoint data and the treatment data.
Adam Scott Harrington, William Kearns, Joakim Olavi Pyyry, Janne I. Nord, Agam Sharda
Filed: 14 Dec 16
Utility
Time-domain Interleaving of Imaging and Treatment X-rays In a Radiation Therapy System
18 Nov 21
Time-domain interleaving of treatment X-rays and imaging X-rays during an image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) process in a radiation therapy system prevents scatter of the treatment X-rays from degrading the quality of X-ray images used to generate volumetric image data of a target volume.
Simon KELLER, Daniel MORF, Peter MUNRO
Filed: 29 Jul 19
Utility
Iterative image reconstruction in image-guided radiation therapy
16 Nov 21
Reconstruction of projection images of a CBCT scan is performed by generating simulated projection data, comparing the simulated projection data to the projection images of the CBCT scan, determining a residual volume based on the comparison, and using the residual volume to determine an accurate reconstructed volume.
Pascal Paysan, Marcus Brehm, Adam Wang, Dieter Seghers, Josh Star-Lack
Filed: 13 Apr 18