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Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2024

Filed:

Nov. 25, 2020
Applicant:

Elekta Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Harald Sepp Heese, Hamburg, DE;

Torbjoern Vik, Hamburg, DE;

Rolf Jürgen Weese, Norderstedt, DE;

Assignee:

Elekta Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/1036 (2013.01); A61N 5/1031 (2013.01); A61N 5/1045 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention relates to a system for determining a radiation therapy plan for a radiation therapy system (), comprising a multi-leaf collimator. The radiation therapy plan determination system () comprises a therapy system characteristics providing unit (), wherein the characteristics comprise possible leaf positions and possible radiation fluence values, a planning objectives providing unit (), wherein the planning objectives are indicative of a desired therapeutic radiation dose distribution, an optimization function providing unit (), wherein the optimization function is indicative of a deviation of a radiation dose distribution from the planning objectives and of an uncertainty of the radiation dose distribution at edges of the possible apertures, and a therapy plan optimization unit () adapted to determine a sequence of possible apertures and possible radiation fluence values for which the optimization function is optimized. Thus, an optimal therapy plan can be provided for each individual patient.


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