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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2018
W. Davis Lee, Newburyport, MA (US);
Jillian Reno, Beverly, MA (US);
James P. Bennett, Birmingham, AL (US);
W. Davis Lee, Newburyport, MA (US);
Jillian Reno, Beverly, MA (US);
James P. Bennett, Birmingham, AL (US);
Other;
Abstract
The invention comprises a method and apparatus for treating a tumor with protons using multiple beamline positions not having an isocenter, including the steps of: (1) delivering the protons from a synchrotron along a redirectable beam transport path to yield a plurality of incident vectors, each of the plurality of incident vectors directed toward the treatment room and (2) redirecting the protons traveling along each of the plurality of incident vectors, with an output nozzle, to the tumor, where a first vector, of the plurality of incident vectors, comprises a first direction intersecting the tumor and where a second vector, of the plurality of incident vectors, comprises a second direction passing by the tumor without entering the tumor. The step of redirecting directs the protons traveling along the first and second incident vectors, respectively, to a first and second path intersecting a front and the back of the tumor.