191 patents
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Projection mapping of radiation suites
23 Nov 20
A radiation suite includes a room having a floor, a ceiling, and one or more walls, a radiation system including a gantry enclosing a radiation source and a couch, and an image projection system operable to project an image on a projection surface on at least a portion of the gantry and/or the couch, providing a calming environment for a patient to relax.
Rachel Rieger, Nitin Mangi, Roberto Luevano, Ross Hannibal
Filed: 28 Sep 17
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Radiation treatment based on dose rate
26 Oct 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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Method and apparatus for performing irradiation time optimization for intensity modulated proton therapy during treatment planning while maintaining acceptable irradiation plan quality
28 Sep 20
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: 27 Sep 18
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LINAC simulator
14 Sep 20
A LINear particle ACcelerator (LINAC) simulator employs a Monte Carlo-based use of repeated random sampling to produce a simulated result representing use of a particular physical medical-services LINAC with particular corresponding real-world parameters.
Daren Sawkey, Ioan Antoniu Popescu, Michelle M. Svatos, Corey Zankowski
Filed: 30 Mar 16
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Radiation therapy system with follow-the-lights user interface
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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Apparatus to facilitate the administration of a knowledge-based radiation treatment plan
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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Systems and methods for patient position monitoring
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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Image fusion in multi-layer flat panel imager
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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System and method for determining position and orientation of depth cameras
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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Multi level multileaf collimator leaf tip shape effects and penumbra optimization
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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Rotatable cantilever gantry in radiotherapy system
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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Beam filter assembly and beam filter positioning device
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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Accounting for imaging-based radiation doses
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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System and methods for processing images to measure collimator leaf and collimator performance
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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Particle beam monitoring systems and methods
6 Jul 20
Presented systems and methods facilitate efficient and effective monitoring of particle beams.
Juergen Heese
Filed: 28 Feb 19
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Systems, methods, and devices for multi-energy X-ray imaging
29 Jun 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: 21 May 17
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Systems and methods for detecting a possible collision between an object and a patient in a medical procedure
22 Jun 20
A method of detecting a possible collision in a medical procedure, includes: obtaining a reference depth image; obtaining an input depth image; determining a composite image using at least a part of the reference depth image and at least a part of the input depth image, wherein the act of determining the composite image is performed using a processing unit; and determining whether there is a possible collision between an object and a patient based on the composite image.
Hassan Mostafavi
Filed: 24 Jun 13
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System, methods, and devices for real-time treatment verification using an electronic portal imaging device
15 Jun 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: 15 Jan 19
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Systems and methods for real-time target validation for image-guided radiation therapy
8 Jun 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: 9 Mar 16
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Forward projection cylinder volume method
8 Jun 20
A method of generating a template image includes: receiving an input from a user representing identifications of an object in different respective slices of a volumetric image; using the input to determine a volume-of-interest (VOI) that includes voxels in a subset of the volumetric image; and determining the template image using at least some of the voxels in the VOI, wherein the act of determining the template image comprises performing a forward projection of the at least some of the voxels in the VOI using a processor.
Hassan Mostafavi, Alexander Sloutsky, Andrew G. Jeung
Filed: 25 Oct 12