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Magnetic field concentrating and or guiding devices and methods
22 Mar 22
A magnetic field concentrating or guiding device can include one or more coils, and one or more foil, tape and/or bulk superconductor structures disposed in one or more predetermined positions with relation to the coils.
Arno Godeke, Michael Schillo
Filed: 2 Apr 20
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Radiotherapy system with linear motor for transverse actuation of base and rotation of gantry
8 Mar 22
A radiation therapy system includes a treatment couch positioning assembly that is directly coupled to a fixed structure supporting the linear accelerator of the radiation therapy system.
David Jensen, Stephen Gaudio, Blake Gaderlund
Filed: 19 Apr 18
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Microwave coagulation applicator and system
22 Feb 22
A microwave applicator for insertion into living body tissue for use in microwave coagulation and ablation treatments includes a microwave transmission line extending between an attachment end of the applicator and an antenna toward an insertion end of the applicator with an outer conductive sleeve forming an enclosed cooling fluid space around the transmission line.
Paul F. Turner, Thomas L. Youd, Brianne Hamilton
Filed: 14 May 18
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Methods of use of ultra-high dose rate radiation and therapeutic agent
16 Nov 21
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: 20 Jul 18
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Apparatus and method for real-time tracking of tissue structures
2 Nov 21
A method and system are disclosed for radiosurgical treatment of moving tissues of the heart, including acquiring at least one volume of the tissue and acquiring at least one ultrasound data set, image or volume of the tissue using an ultrasound transducer disposed at a position.
Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard
Filed: 15 Sep 15
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Blood-tissue surface based radiosurgical renal treatment planning
26 Oct 21
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: 12 Feb 19
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Method and apparatus for performing irradiation time optimization for intensity modulated proton therapy during treatment planning while maintaining acceptable irradiation plan quality
26 Oct 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 Vanderstraeten
Filed: 10 Aug 20
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High DQE imaging device
26 Oct 21
An imaging device includes: a scintillator layer; and an array of photodiode elements; wherein the scintillator layer is configured to receive radiation that has passed through the array of photodiode elements.
Daniel Shedlock, Josh M. Star-Lack, Daniel Morf, Eric Abel, Gary F. Virshup, Andre Meyer, Viktor Steinlin, Mingshan Sun
Filed: 2 Oct 15
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Radiation treatment planning based on dose rate
14 Sep 21
A dose rate-volume histogram is generated for a target volume.
Deepak Khuntia, Edward Vertatschitsch, Eric Abel, Anthony Magliari, Christel Smith
Filed: 6 Mar 19
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Radiation therapy system using a digital tomosynthesis process for near real-time localization
7 Sep 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: 25 Jun 19
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Model based PBS optimization for flash therapy treatment planning and oncology information system
31 Aug 21
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: 11 Jun 19
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Method and system applications for push notification
24 Aug 21
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method, system, and article of manufacture of a native notification center app that receive all types of push notifications.
Kalyanaraman Balasubramaniam Krishnan, Nambi Narasimhan
Filed: 28 May 19