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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2018
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Vinod Bharadwaj, Stanford, CA (US);
Valery A. Dolgashev, San Carlos, CA (US);
Rebecca Fahrig, Moehrendorf, DE;
Billy Wiseman Loo, Foster City, CA (US);
Peter G. Maxim, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sami Tantawi, Stanford, CA (US);
Cecile Limborg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ludovic Nicolas, Menlo Park, CA (US);
The Board of Trsutees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and system for facilitating rapid radiation treatments are provided herein and relate in particular to radiation generation and delivery, electron source design, beam control and shaping/intensity-modulation. The methods and systems described herein are particularly advantageous when used with a compact high-gradient, very high energy electron (VHEE) accelerator and delivery system (and related processes) capable of treating patients from multiple beam directions with great speed, using all-electromagnetic or radiofrequency deflection steering is provided; or when used with a high-current electron accelerator system of energy range more conventionally used in photon radiation therapy to produce much faster delivery of intensity-modulated photon radiation therapy, that can in both cases deliver an entire dose or fraction of high-dose radiation therapy sufficiently fast to freeze physiologic motion, yet with an equal or better degree of dose conformity or sculpting compared to conventional photon therapy.