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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2019
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Arlington, VA (US);
Ross S. Fontenot, Montgomery Village, MD (US);
William A. Hollerman, Lafayette, LA (US);
Noel A. Guardala, Columbia, MD (US);
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Exemplary inventive practice implements Europium Tetrakis Dibenzoylmethide Triethylammonium (EuDTEA) so as to administer ion beam therapy with extreme precision. An EUDTEA-inclusive marker (e.g., a solid or gel) is exactingly placed on the skin of a patient in accordance with a predetermined location of cancerous tissue beneath the skin. An ion beam aimed at the EUDTEA-inclusive marker results in luminescence of at least a portion of the EUDTEA-inclusive marker, thereby indicating that at least a portion of the ion beam is traveling through the EUDTEA-inclusive marker and striking the cancer therebelow. According to other modes of exemplary inventive practice, a medical phantom contains a tumor replica that is visibly contrastive inside the medical phantom in terms of luminescence versus non-luminescence. The tumor replica is targeted in ion beam testing to discern optimal geometric and radiative conditions for treating a correspondingly situated patient on the same treatment couch.