Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Jefferson Science Associates, LLC

Southeastern Universities Research Assn., Inc.

Daniel J Macey

Stanislaw Majewski

Andrew G Weisenberger

Jaime Simon

R Keith Frank

Kenneth McMillan

Alan D Strickland

Brian J Kross

James Proffitt

Mark Frederick Smith

Dana W Simon

A method and apparatus for real time imaging and monitoring of radiation therapy beams is designed to preferentially distinguish and image low energy radiation from high energy secondary radiation emitted from a target as the result of therapeutic beam deposition. A detector having low sensitivity to high energy photons combined with a collimator designed to dynamically image in the region of the therapeutic beam target is used.

Method and apparatus for real time imaging and monitoring of radiotherapy beams

This invention relates to medical uses of radiopharmaceuticals. Specifically, the present invention relates to the use of radiopharmaceuticals to treat osteomyelitis. The present invention provides improved system and methods of for the direct delivery of radiopharmaceuticals to the site of osteomyelitis.

Treatment of osteomyelitis with radiopharmaceuticals

A method and apparatus for the in vivo location and tracking of a radioactive seed source during and after brachytherapy treatment. The method comprises obtaining multiple views of the seed source in a living organism using: 1) a single PSPMT detector that is exposed through a multiplicity of pinholes thereby obtaining a plurality of images from a single angle; 2) a single PSPMT detector that may obtain an image through a single pinhole or a plurality of pinholes from a plurality of angles through movement of the detector; or 3) a plurality of PSPMT detectors that obtain a plurality of views from different angles simultaneously or virtually simultaneously. The plurality of images obtained from these various techniques, through angular displacement of the various acquired images, provide the information required to generate the three dimensional images needed to define the location of the radioactive seed source within the body of the living organism.

Apparatus and method for high dose rate brachytherapy radiation treatment

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