Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Radiation therapy system using a digital tomosynthesis process for near real-time localization
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Application No.: US16452498Application Date: 2019-06-25
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Publication No.: US11110300B2Publication Date: 2021-09-07
- Inventor: John Van Heteren , Liangjia Zhu , Daniel Morf
- Applicant: Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: SU IP Consulting
- Main IPC: A61N5/10
- IPC: A61N5/10 ; A61B6/00 ; G06T7/00 ; G06T11/00 ; A61B6/03

Abstract:
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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200030633A1 RADIATION THERAPY SYSTEM USING A DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS PROCESS FOR NEAR REAL-TIME LOCALIZATION Public/Granted day:2020-01-30
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