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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2023
Applicant:
Siemens Healthineers International Ag, Steinhausen, CH;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Healthineers International AG, Steinhausen, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/1036 (2013.01); A61N 5/1045 (2013.01); A61N 5/1048 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1074 (2013.01);
Abstract
A control circuit that is configured as a graphics processing unit optimizes leaf movements for at least one multi-leaf collimator, and where optimizing the leaf movements is configured as a highly parallel optimization opportunity. By one approach, a second control circuit serves, at least in part, to so configure the optimizing of the leaf movements as the highly parallel optimization opportunity. That second control circuit can itself be configured as a central processing unit (as distinct from, for example, the aforementioned graphics processing unit).