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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1996
Jonathan Yi Yao, Pleasant Hill, CA (US);
Siemens Medical Systems Inc., Iselin, NJ (US);
Abstract
An ionization chamber for monitoring a radiation beam includes a housing having a primary beam passageway and a number of secondary beam cells that are adjacent to the primary beam passageway. The primary beam passageway passes entirely through the housing. In the preferred embodiment, a large-area beam measuring electrode and an array of small-area beam measuring electrodes are each coaxial with the primary beam passageway. Also, in the preferred embodiment, each secondary beam cell includes a beam measuring electrode. Because the portions of the radiation beam that enter the secondary beam cells do not pass through the ionization chamber, these portions do not contaminate the treatment beam, allowing the beam measuring electrodes within the cells to be dimensioned and configured so as to maximize signal strength.
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