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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 14, 2016
Applicants:

James P. Bennett, Birmingham, AL (US);

Stephen L. Spotts, Argyle, TX (US);

W. Davis Lee, Newburyport, MA (US);

Susan L. Michaud, Brewster, MA (US);

Inventors:

James P. Bennett, Birmingham, AL (US);

Stephen L. Spotts, Argyle, TX (US);

W. Davis Lee, Newburyport, MA (US);

Susan L. Michaud, Brewster, MA (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61N 5/10 (2006.01); G21K 5/04 (2006.01); G21K 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/4085 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/4258 (2013.01); A61N 5/1044 (2013.01); A61N 5/1067 (2013.01); A61N 5/1069 (2013.01); A61N 5/1082 (2013.01); G21K 1/08 (2013.01); G21K 5/04 (2013.01); A61B 6/4014 (2013.01); A61B 6/487 (2013.01); A61B 6/5205 (2013.01); A61N 5/107 (2013.01); A61N 2005/105 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1054 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1061 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1087 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1095 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1097 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention comprises a positively charged particle based cancer therapy system integrated with at least one off-axis imaging system, where elements of the off-axis imaging system and the cancer therapy system are co-positioned/co-rotated with a gantry. The imaging apparatus optionally functions with a tomography system using the positively charged particles of the cancer therapy system for enhanced patient/tumor imaging at and/or prior to a time of treatment.


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