Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Brachytherapy dose verification apparatus, system and method
-
Application No.: US13822278Application Date: 2010-09-13
-
Publication No.: US09636523B2Publication Date: 2017-05-02
- Inventor: Ryan Lee Smith , Rick Don Franich
- Applicant: Ryan Lee Smith , Rick Don Franich
- Agency: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP
- International Application: PCT/AU2010/001188 WO 20100913
- International Announcement: WO2012/034157 WO 20120322
- Main IPC: A61N5/10
- IPC: A61N5/10 ; A61B6/12

Abstract:
A system, method and device for brachytherapy treatment verification is described herein. The verification may be in real time and may provide verification of one or more of dose, source position, dwell time and source activity. In one embodiment the invention provides a method for verifying a brachytherapy radiation treatment including processing a distribution of exposure to a brachytherapy radiation source of a two dimensional imaging array to determine a region of high exposure; obtaining one or more distribution of exposure profiles through the region of high exposure; determining a region of high value in the one or more distribution of exposure profiles; and using the determined region of high exposure and/or high value to calculate one or more brachytherapy radiation source position and/or one or more brachytherapy radiation source distance to thereby verify at least a part of the brachytherapy radiation treatment.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130303902A1 BRACHYTHERAPY DOSE VERIFICATION APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2013-11-14
Information query