Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Delivery system for intensity modulated high dose rate brachytherapy with intermediate energy brachytherapy isotopes
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Application No.: US16471703Application Date: 2017-12-20
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Publication No.: US11324966B2Publication Date: 2022-05-10
- Inventor: Shirin Abbasi Nejad Enger , Gabriel Famulari
- Applicant: THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING / MCGILL UNIVERSITY
- Applicant Address: CA Montréal
- Assignee: THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING / MCGILL UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING / MCGILL UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: CA Montréal
- Agency: Norton Rose Fulbright Canada
- International Application: PCT/CA2017/051547 WO 20171220
- International Announcement: WO2018/112625 WO 20180628
- Main IPC: A61N5/10
- IPC: A61N5/10

Abstract:
A delivery system and method for radiation shielded brachytherapy has a drive assembly, and a plurality of shield assemblies, pivotally mounted to the drive assembly, each having a tubular body defining an outer surface and a bore longitudinally extending between opposite ends of the tubular body. Each of the shield assemblies has radiation shielding material extending about a circumferential portion of the tubular body and disposed between the outer surface and the cavity. An interlocking system is operatively mounted to the rotating assembly, and engages a group of the plurality of shield assemblies. The interlocking system is configured for transmitting a rotational input received from a driving mechanism to the group of shield assemblies, for synchronously rotating each shield assembly of the group about their respective longitudinal axis.
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