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Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 02, 2015
Applicant:

Varian Medical Systems International Ag, Cham, CH;

Inventors:

Matthias Oster, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Andres Graf, Oberwil, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/1071 (2013.01); A61N 5/1036 (2013.01); A61N 5/1045 (2013.01); A61N 5/1067 (2013.01); A61N 5/1075 (2013.01); A61N 5/1037 (2013.01); A61N 5/1038 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1057 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1074 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for quantifying radiation beam conformity includes: obtaining first information regarding a prescribed aperture; obtaining second information regarding an actual aperture defined by components of a collimator; and determining, using a processing unit, a metric based on the first information regarding the prescribed aperture and the second information regarding the actual aperture, wherein the metric indicates an amount of over-exposed aperture area, an amount of under-exposed aperture area, or both, and wherein the processing unit comprises one or more input for receiving the first and second information, and comprises a metric determination module configured to determine the metric based on the first information and the second information.


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