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7616735 |
Tomosurgery
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with Tomosurgery are described. One method embodiment includes logically dividing a target volume into treatment slices to be radiated...
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7616729 |
Method for producing X-ray computer tomography images from limited data of an image object
The invention relates to a method for producing computer tomography images from limited data of a region of interest of an image object which can be subject to changes, comprising the steps of
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7613501 |
System, tracker, and program product to facilitate and verify proper target alignment for radiation delivery, and related methods
A system, tracker, program product, and methods to facilitate and verify proper target alignment for radiation delivery are provided. The system includes a radiation delivery apparatus having a...
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7609811 |
Method for minimizing the tongue and groove effect in intensity modulated radiation delivery
The present invention provides an intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) method for treating a target region that minimizes the tongue and groove effect. By minimizing that effect, striping...
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7609810 |
Treatment-speed regulated tumor-tracking
A method for delivering therapeutic radiation to a tumor within a patient including: monitoring tumor motion in a preliminary procedure to generate and record a surrogate signal representing the...
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7609809 |
System and method of generating contour structures using a dose volume histogram
A system and method of defining a new region of interest for an existing region of interest using a dose volume histogram. The method includes the acts of generating a dose volume histogram of...
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7606405 |
Dynamic tumor diagnostic and treatment system
A workstation imports medical images that depict a tumor and provides tools that enable a physician to see the results of prior therapies, plan future therapies, predict the outcome of future...
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7604405 |
Integrated quality assurance for an image guided radiation treatment delivery system
A method and apparatus for quality assurance of an image guided radiation treatment delivery system. A quality assurance (“QA”) marker is positioned at a preset position under guidance of an...
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7596207 |
Method of accounting for tumor motion in radiotherapy treatment
A method and apparatus accounting for tumor motion during radiation therapy is provided. The method allows for radiation therapy treatments based on updated radiation therapy plans. For each...
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7593505 |
Method for automatic anatomy-specific treatment planning protocols based on historical integration of previously accepted plans
A method of automatically optimizing an inverse treatment plan by referencing data from an accepted plan library.
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7590219 |
Automatically determining a beam parameter for radiation treatment planning
Systems and methods for automatically determining a beam parameter at each of a plurality of treatment nodes are disclosed. The beam parameter may include a beam shape, beam size and/or beam...
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7590218 |
System for monitoring the geometry of a radiation treatment apparatus, trackable assembly, program product, and related methods
A system to monitor a geometry of a treatment apparatus, an apparatus, a trackable assembly, program product, and methods are provided. The system includes a treatment apparatus having a radiation...
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7587024 |
Particle beam irradiation system
A system for treating an ocular tumor having a cone, a collimator, a light source and a camera is disclosed. The cone includes a cone input and a cone output and is capable of being mounted and...
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7583775 |
Concentrated irradiation type radiotherapy apparatus
A concentrated irradiation type radiotherapy apparatus comprises a radiation source, a multi-channeled radiation detector, a rotating mechanism, an image reconstruction unit, a multi-leaf...
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7582886 |
Gantry for medical particle therapy facility
A particle therapy gantry for delivering a particle beam to a patient includes a beam tube having a curvature defining a particle beam path and a plurality of fixed field magnets sequentially...
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7577236 |
Device for switching/generating x-rays for diagnosis and curing
There is disclosed a device including: an electron beam generation device 10 which accelerates a pulse electron beam 1 to transmit the beam through a predetermined rectilinear orbit 2 ; a...
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7573978 |
Variable feathering field splitting for intensity modulated fields of large size
A method and associated system 300 for delivering intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) uses variable feathering field splitting for intensity modulated fields of large size. A processor...
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7570740 |
Radiotherapy apparatus and parts thereof
The detected positioning error in a geometry item of a radiotherapy apparatus is generally passed to a transfer function for the system, which outputs a signal that dictates the radiation output....
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7570739 |
Radiotherapy apparatus and parts thereof
A mount for a radiotherapy apparatus may include a cylindrical bearing surface to allow the mount to be supported in a rotateable manner, a housing extending from the bearing surface and having an...
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7570738 |
Four-dimensional (4D) image verification in respiratory gated radiation therapy
A method for four-dimensional (4D) image verification in respiratory gated radiation therapy, includes: acquiring 4D computed tomography (CT) images, each of the 4D CT images representing a...
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7567647 |
Source array translation for digital tomosynthesis
A system includes emission of first radiation from a plurality of radiation sources disposed in a fixed relationship to each other, the first radiation emitted from a first plurality of locations...
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7564946 |
Orthovoltage radiotherapy
A radiosurgery system configured to deliver a therapeutic dose of radiation to a target structure in a patient is described. In some embodiments, inflammatory ocular disorders are treated,...
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7564945 |
System including computed tomography device for image guided treatment
A computed tomography (CT) system ( 300 ) includes a table ( 304 ) for holding a patient ( 302 ), a first gantry ( 311 ) for holding a radiation source ( 310 ) which emits penetrating radiation,...
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7562057 |
System and method for hyper-spectral analysis
An improved method and system for classifying tissue samples comprises determining a tissue type classification based on spectral data of training samples of known target classification. Denoised...
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7558378 |
Multileaf collimator
A multileaf collimator is provided. The multileaf collimator may be used for radiotherapy. The multileaf collimator may include a plurality of leaves that are adjustable along a displacement...
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7555101 |
High-energy photon detector
A system may include a body defining a plurality of apertures, a plurality of conductive elements, each of the plurality of conductive elements disposed within a respective one of the plurality of...
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7551717 |
Virtual 4D treatment suite
A virtual 4D treatment suite includes a dose calculation module, a gating module, and a dose rate adjustment module. The 4D treatment suite may be used to virtually analyze the impact the motion of...
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7547901 |
Multiple beam path particle source
An improved particle beam treatment system optionally includes exchangeable particle beam nozzles. These particle beam nozzles may be automatically moved from a storage location to a particle beam...
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7545911 |
Imaging device and therapy facility having such a device
An imaging device and therapy facility are provided. An imaging device includes a table that supports a patient. An image-making unit is operative to create digital picture data of a body region of...
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7542545 |
Method and device for calculating the radiation dose distribution for a radiation treatment system for the purpose of radiation therapy of an animal body
A method for calculating the radiation dose distribution for a radiation treatment system for the purpose of radiation therapy of an animal body, wherein the radiation beam of the radiation...
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7541025 |
Treatment of malignant tumor
The invention provides a technology which utilizes donor lymphocyte infusion and by which malignant tumor can be treated without causing such an adverse effect as graft versus host disease. Thus, a...
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7539285 |
Device for exposure field monitoring in a radiation therapy apparatus
In a device for exposure field monitoring of a therapeutic radiation exposure field with diagnostic x-ray image quality with the same or nearly the same projection as in therapeutic radiation, the...
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7535991 |
Portable orthovoltage radiotherapy
A portable orthovoltage radiotherapy system is described that is configured to deliver a therapeutic dose of radiation to a target structure in a patient. In some embodiments, inflammatory ocular...
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7532705 |
Systems and methods for localizing a target for radiotherapy based on digital tomosynthesis
Systems and methods for localizing a target for radiotherapy based on digital tomosynthesis are provided. According to one method, DTS verification image data of a target located within or on a...
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7531818 |
Multiple room radiation treatment system
The present invention refers to a radiation system ( 1 ) comprising an excentric gantry ( 100 ) arranged in connection with multiple treatment rooms ( 61 - 68 ) separated by radiation-shielding...
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7531810 |
Integrated half-beam profile measurement and polar profile for circular radiation field symmetry assessment
A method for routine monitoring and quality assurance of field asymmetry of high energy circular radiation beam producing equipment. The quality assurance process of field symmetry for devices such...
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7529339 |
Method and system for optimizing dose delivery of radiation
Described embodiments relate to determining an objective function to be used for mapping radiation beams to a patient body volume. The objective function has a first term related to at least one...
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7526066 |
Radiation therapy system for treating breasts and extremities
A radiation therapy system optimized for treating extremities such as the breast has unique geometrical features that enable the system to deliver an accurately located prescribed dose to a target...
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7519151 |
Online igrt using digital tomosynthesis
A system includes movement of a treatment delivering x-ray source to a treatment position, creation of projection images of a target using an imaging x-ray source while the treatment delivering...
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7519150 |
System for enhancing intensity modulated radiation therapy, program product, and related methods
A system to provide enhanced computational efficiency in determining dose in a media of varying density from a high-energy radiation-beam for radiation treatment, program product, and related...
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7519149 |
Small field intensity modulated radiation therapy machine
A small field radiation therapy machine having an aperture diameter of 30 cm or less provides improved ray definition for specialized treatment of portions of the human body such as head a breast.
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7511286 |
Image-based flat panel alignment
Some embodiments include determination of a first misalignment between an imaging device and an axis of a radiation beam emitted from a treatment head, determination of a rotational misalignment...
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7508967 |
Radiation treatment planning using conformal avoidance
A system and method of radiation planning. The system and method are configured to implement or include the steps of (a) obtaining an image of a patient encompassing tumorous and non-tumorous...
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7507975 |
System and method for high resolution radiation field shaping
A system and method are provided for a high resolution radiation treatment system which provide for projecting a field of radiation energy at targeted patient tissue. The system uses a multi-leaf...
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7505559 |
Determining a target-to-surface distance and using it for real time absorbed dose calculation and compensation
An apparatus and method for determining a target-to-surface distance (TSD) between a target region in a body and an actual point of entry of a radiation beam into the body from a radiation source....
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7502443 |
Radiation therapy machine with triple KV/MV imaging
A triple imager arrangement is mounted onto a linear accelerator, providing pre- or post-treatment images of a patient, for verification and monitoring of patient position. Left and right...
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7489764 |
Adjustable aperture collimator
A collimator including an inner border whose inner perimeter defines an aperture, an outer border positioned outwards of the inner border, an enclosure being defined and bounded between the inner...
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7486984 |
System and method for monochromatic x-ray beam therapy
In embodiments of the invention, a radiosensitizer or other agent is relatively uniformly accumulated in the cells of a tumor. An external monochromatic x-ray beam, which is tuned to a...
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7486983 |
Verification of radiation beam characteristics
A system to acquire a first image of a radiation field, the radiation field produced by a radiation beam, and to determine a second image based on the first image and based on a reference image of...
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7486775 |
Tissue irradiation device with at least one electron source and numerous radiation heads
A device for irradiating tissue encompassing at least one electron source for generating an electron beam, numerous radiation heads that are firmly and annularly arranged in a supporting frame...
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