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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2017
The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning / Mcgill University, Montréal, CA;
Shirin Abbasi Nejad Enger, Montreal, CA;
Gabriel Famulari, Laval, CA;
Abstract
A delivery system and method for radiation shielded brachytherapy has a drive assembly, and a plurality of shield assemblies, pivotally mounted to the drive assembly, each having a tubular body defining an outer surface and a bore longitudinally extending between opposite ends of the tubular body. Each of the shield assemblies has radiation shielding material extending about a circumferential portion of the tubular body and disposed between the outer surface and the cavity. An interlocking system is operatively mounted to the rotating assembly, and engages a group of the plurality of shield assemblies. The interlocking system is configured for transmitting a rotational input received from a driving mechanism to the group of shield assemblies, for synchronously rotating each shield assembly of the group about their respective longitudinal axis.