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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2009
Nicholaos Tsoupas, Center Moriches, NY (US);
Dmitry Kayran, Rocky Point, NY (US);
Vladimir Litvinenko, Mt. Sinai, NY (US);
William W. Mackay, Wading River, NY (US);
Nicholaos Tsoupas, Center Moriches, NY (US);
Dmitry Kayran, Rocky Point, NY (US);
Vladimir Litvinenko, Mt. Sinai, NY (US);
William W. MacKay, Wading River, NY (US);
Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC, Upton, NY (US);
Abstract
A medical gantry that focus the beam from the beginning of the gantry to the exit of the gantry independent of the rotation angle of the gantry by keeping the beam achromatic and uncoupled, thus, avoiding the use of collimators or rotators, or additional equipment to control the beam divergence, which may cause beam intensity loss or additional time in irradiation of the patient, or disadvantageously increase the overall gantry size inapplicable for the use in the medical treatment facility.