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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2010
Janne Nord, Espoo, FI;
Ramin Baghaie, Espoo, FI;
Marko Rusanen, Helsinki, FI;
Juha Kauppinen, Espoo, FI;
Janne Nord, Espoo, FI;
Ramin Baghaie, Espoo, FI;
Marko Rusanen, Helsinki, FI;
Juha Kauppinen, Espoo, FI;
Varian Medical Systems International AG, Zug, CH;
Abstract
One accesses information regarding the functionality of portions of the patient's body and then uses that information to optimize a radiation-treatment plan to treat a target portion of the patient's body while minimizing at least some collateral radiation-based damage to non-targeted functional portions of the patient's body. By one approach, the aforementioned information can comprise a functionality model as pertains to at least some portions of the patient's body. As one example in these regards, this can comprise optimizing the radiation-treatment plan such that the planned radiation beams tend to pass through non-targeted less-functional portions of the patient's body rather than through non-targeted portions of the patient's body of greater functionality.