421 patents
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Radiation Treatment Based on Dose Rate
9 Sep 20
A dose rate-volume histogram can be generated for a target volume.
Deepak KHUNTIA, Edward VERTATSCHITSCH, Eric ABEL, Anthony MAGLIARI, Christel SMITH
Filed: 5 Mar 19
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System and Method for Biological Treatment Planning and Decision Support
9 Sep 20
Embodiments of the present invention provide an integrated solution to radiotherapy treatment planning that enables accurate recording and accumulation of physical parameters as input (e.g., dose, dose rate, irradiation time per voxel, etc.).
Michael Matthew FOLKERTS, Jessica PEREZ, Christel SMITH, Eric ABEL, Anthony MAGLIARI, Reynald VANDERSTRAETEN, Timo Kalevi KOPONEN, Renate PARRY, Alexander KATSIS, Rajiv DUA, Michiko ALCANZARE, Perttu NIEMELA, Matti ROPO
Filed: 7 Mar 19
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9 Sep 20
A computing system comprising a central processing unit (CPU), and memory coupled to the CPU and having stored therein instructions that, when executed by the computing system, cause the computing system to execute operations to generate a radiation treatment plan.
Michael Matthew FOLKERTS, Jessica PEREZ, Christel SMITH, Eric ABEL, Anthony MAGLIARI, Reynald VANDERSTRAETEN, Timo Kalevi KOPONEN, Renate PARRY, Alexander KATSIS, Rajiv DUA, Michiko ALCANZARE, Perttu NIEMELA, Matti ROPO
Filed: 10 Jun 19
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9 Sep 20
A graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a representation of a target volume and sub-volumes of the target volume is rendered and displayed.
Deepak KHUNTIA, Edward VERTATSCHITSCH, Eric ABEL, Anthony MAGLIARI, Christel SMITH
Filed: 5 Mar 19
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7 Sep 20
At each step of a workflow performed by an operator that involves a plurality of input mechanisms in a radiation therapy system, the operator is assisted in the process of selecting the next input mechanism in a way that greatly reduces the number of possible input mechanisms that can be chosen.
Susan Koehl, Ross Hannibal
Filed: 18 Apr 18
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26 Aug 20
A system for treating a patient during radiation therapy is disclosed.
Eric ABEL, Corey ZANKOWSKI, Jessica PEREZ, Anthony MAGLIARI, Christel SMITH, MIchael FOLKERTS, Bill HANSEN, Reynald VANDERSTRAETEN, Timo KOPONEN
Filed: 9 Jun 19
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17 Aug 20
A control circuit accesses information regarding a plurality of pre-existing vetted radiation treatment plans for a variety of patients and uses that information to train at least one model (such as a dose volume histogram estimation model).
Janne I. Nord, Joona Hartman, Esa Kuusela, Corey Zankowski
Filed: 27 Jul 17
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10 Aug 20
A method of monitoring a patient includes: obtaining an input image having a plurality of regions of interest by a processing unit; and determining a plurality of positions for the respective plurality of regions of interest by the processing unit; wherein the act of determining the plurality of positions comprises: accessing a plurality of templates; comparing the plurality of templates with respective areas in the input image using a comparator in the processing unit; and determining the plurality of positions based at least in part on a result of the act of comparing.
Hassan Mostafavi
Filed: 2 Mar 15
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10 Aug 20
An imaging apparatus includes: a first scintillator layer configured to provide first image signals with a first quantum efficiency and a first spatial resolution; a second scintillator layer configured to provide second image signals with a second quantum efficiency and a second spatial resolution, wherein the first quantum efficiency is lower than the second quantum efficiency, but the first spatial resolution is higher than the second spatial resolution; and an image combiner configured to combine the first image signals and the second image signals.
Pavlo Baturin, Adam Shar Wang, Liangjia Zhu
Filed: 30 Dec 18
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10 Aug 20
A system for determining positional information of a camera, includes: a plane determination module configured to determine a first plane and a second plane based on a depth image; a plane-association module configured to associate the first plane determined by the plane determination module with a first tool-plane, and to associate the second plane determined by the plane determination module with a second tool-plane, the first and second tool-planes having known positional relationship with respect to each other; and a positional determination unit configured to determine the positional information of the camera based on an output from the plane-association module.
Hassan Mostafavi, Andrew G. Jeung, Alexander Sloutsky, David H. Humber
Filed: 23 Aug 16
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5 Aug 20
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: 20 Apr 20
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29 Jul 20
Systems and methods for real-time target validation during radiation treatment therapy based on real-time target displacement and radiation dosimetry measurements.
John Rodenbeck ADLER, JR., Jianing SHI, James E. CLAYTON
Filed: 8 Apr 20
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29 Jul 20
A radiation dose received by a patient from a radiation therapy system can be verified by acquiring a cine stream of image frames from an electronic portal imaging device (EPID) that is arranged to detect radiation exiting the patient during irradiation.
Christof BALTES, Todd HOLMES
Filed: 9 Apr 20
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27 Jul 20
A multi level multileaf collimator employs leaves with leaf tips having a non-square shape in a beam's eye view to improve beam shaping effect and penumbra performance.
HsinLu Hsu, Ross Hannibal, Steven W. Prince, Janne Nord
Filed: 14 Dec 17
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27 Jul 20
A proton beam therapy system with a cantilever gantry.
Rizwan Hassan, Juergen Schultheiss, Lorenzo Miguelino Marte, Jean-Paul Etienne Sier, Michael Poier
Filed: 18 Feb 20
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15 Jul 20
A method performed by a medical device, includes: providing a permanent magnetic field by a permanent magnet; operating an electromagnet to provide a first electromagnetic field with a first electromagnetic field value; and operating the electromagnet to provide a second electromagnetic field with a second electromagnetic field value; wherein the first electromagnetic field and the permanent magnetic field forms a first total magnetic field with a first total magnetic field value, and wherein the second electromagnetic field and the permanent magnetic field forms a second total magnetic field with a second total magnetic field value; wherein the first total magnetic is formed when an electric field in an accelerator or an energy level of a particle beam has a first value, and wherein the second total magnetic field is formed when the electric field in the accelerator or the energy level of the particle beam has a second value.
Anuj K. PURWAR, James E. CLAYTON, Dragos E. CONSTANTIN, Gard E. MEDDAUGH, Matthew C. SCHMIDT, Mark E. TRAIL, Flavio POEHLMANN
Filed: 26 Mar 20
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13 Jul 20
In a beam filter assembly, a base filter is employed to modify a beam quality of a radiation beam of a base energy level and a first filter slice is stacked with the base filter to modify a beam quality of a radiation beam of a first energy level higher than the base energy level.
Christopher Brown, Rachel Rieger, Dusan Baic, Sean Kelley
Filed: 23 May 19
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6 Jul 20
A radiation-treatment plan to treat a treatment target in a given patient takes into account imaging-based dosing of that patient by, for example, automatically accounting for radiation dosing of the given patient that results from imaging to determine at least one physical position of the given patient when forming the radiation-treatment plan.
Mika Miettinen, Stefan J. Thieme-Marti, Jeff Everett, Andres Graf, Joakim Pyyry, Juha Kauppinen
Filed: 24 Sep 15
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6 Jul 20
Systems and methods are proposed for accurate and efficient automatic measurement of jaw and leaf positioning in multi-leaf collimator imaging systems.
Stephen Gaudio
Filed: 1 Oct 17
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6 Jul 20
Presented systems and methods facilitate efficient and effective monitoring of particle beams.
Juergen Heese
Filed: 28 Feb 19