- Patent Title: Modulated radiation beam alignment for medical linear accelerator
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Application No.: US17407629Application Date: 2021-08-20
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Publication No.: US11617902B2Publication Date: 2023-04-04
- Inventor: Nicholas G. Zacharopoulos
- Applicant: AKTINA CORP.
- Applicant Address: US NY Congers
- Assignee: AKTINA CORP.
- Current Assignee: AKTINA CORP.
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Congers
- Agency: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.
- Main IPC: A61N5/10
- IPC: A61N5/10

Abstract:
Systems and methods for delivering a radiation beam using a linear accelerator (LINAC). Optimal beam alignment parameters may be determined and stored for each of N gantry angles. The beam alignment parameters may adjust a current supplied to one or more bending magnets of the LINAC and, thus, change an angle and direction of the radiation beam. An optimum beam alignment parameter for a gantry angle may be determined by adjusting the beam alignment parameter until a center of a radiation field of the radiation beam in a radiation transmission image is at a center of shadow of a radiation opaque marker, which may be placed at a radiation isocenter. The beam alignment parameters stored for the N gantry angles may be used to adjust the beam steering current as the gantry is rotated through any arbitrary gantry angle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220062658A1 MODULATED RADIATION BEAM ALIGNMENT FOR MEDICAL LINEAR ACCELERATOR Public/Granted day:2022-03-03
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