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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2015
Varian Medical Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Corey Zankowski, San Jose, CA (US);
Janne Nord, Espoo, FI;
Maria Isabel Cordero Marcos, Espoo, FI;
Joona Hartman, Espoo, FI;
Jarkko Peltola, Tuusula, FI;
Esa Kuusela, Espoo, FI;
Varian Medical Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Varian Medical Systems International AG., Cham, CH;
Abstract
A system for estimating a dose from a radiation therapy plan includes a memory that stores machine-readable instructions and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the processor operable to execute the instructions to subdivide a representation of a volume of interest into voxels. The processor also determines distances between a planned radiation field origin and each respective voxel. The processor further computes geometry-based expected (GED) metrics based on the distances, a plan parameter, and a field strength parameter. The processor sums the metrics to yield an estimated dose received by the volume of interest from the planned radiation field.