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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
May. 13, 2016
University Health Network, Toronto, CA;
Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, CA;
Sean Davidson, Toronto, CA;
Michael D. Sherar, Toronto, CA;
Kieran Murphy, Toronto, CA;
Claire McCann, Toronto, CA;
Robert Weersink, Toronto, CA;
University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, CA;
Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
Various embodiments are described herein for a system and a method for treatment planning for providing ablative therapy to a patient. The treatment planning may involve segmenting images of the patient to define areas to receive treatment, defining trial parameters, simulating treatment of ablative therapy to the patient according to the trial parameters; analyzing a thermal dose distribution resulting from the simulated treatment to determine treatment effectiveness; determining when the treatment effectiveness meets a treatment effectiveness criteria; and providing an indication of the trial parameters when the treatment effectiveness meets the treatment effectiveness criteria.