Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Radiotherapy and imaging apparatus
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Application No.: US15285301Application Date: 2016-10-04
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Publication No.: US09694206B2Publication Date: 2017-07-04
- Inventor: John Allen , Kevin Brown
- Applicant: Elekta AB (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: ELEKTA AB (PUBL)
- Current Assignee: ELEKTA AB (PUBL)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Westman, Champlin & Koehler, P.A.
- Agent Z. Peter Sawicki; Amanda M. Prose
- Main IPC: A61B5/05
- IPC: A61B5/05 ; A61N5/10 ; G01R33/48

Abstract:
A radiotherapy system comprises a patient support, moveable along a translation axis, an imaging apparatus, comprising a first magnetic coil and a second magnetic coil, the first and second magnetic coils having a common central axis parallel to the translation axis, and being displaced from one another along the central axis to form a gap therebetween, the imaging apparatus being configured to obtain an image of a patient on the patient support, a source of radiation mounted on a chassis, the chassis being rotatable about the central axis and the source being adapted to emit a beam of radiation through the gap along a beam axis that intersects with the central axis, a multi-leaf collimator comprising a plurality of elongate leaves movable between at least a withdrawn position in which the leaf lies outside the beam, and an extended position in which the leaf projects across the beam, and a radiation detector mounted to the chassis opposite the source, the radiation detector having a plurality of detector elements aligned with the elongate leaves when projected onto an isocentric plane.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170021196A1 RADIOTHERAPY AND IMAGING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-01-26
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