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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. 03, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenneth Whitham, Alamo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Iselin, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/10 ;
Abstract
A radiation therapy system according to the present invention includes a treatment system and an imaging system. The treatment system employs a first tungsten target to generate high power X-rays for treatment. The imaging system uses a second target to generate low power X-rays for imaging. The targets are arranged such that the resulting treatment and imaging beams are generally collinear.