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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2007
Applicants:

Sohail Sayeh, San Ramon, CA (US);

Gopinath Kuduvalli, San Jose, CA (US);

Daniel Brown, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sohail Sayeh, San Ramon, CA (US);

Gopinath Kuduvalli, San Jose, CA (US);

Daniel Brown, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Accuray Incorporated, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An apparatus and method for determining optimized path traversal in a radiation delivery system is described. In one embodiment, determining an optimized path traversal in a radiation delivery system involves providing a plurality of spatial nodes used in a treatment plan, where each of the plurality of spatial nodes represents a position of a radiation source made available to the treatment plan for delivering radiation to a target, identifying a number of unused spatial nodes, from among the plurality of spatial nodes, at which radiation is not delivered according to the treatment plan, and skipping travel to one or more of the unused nodes by the radiation source when administering the treatment plan. Other embodiments are also described.


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