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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2009
Applicants:
Weiguo LU, Madison, WI (US);
Mingli Chen, Madison, WI (US);
Quan Chen, Madison, WI (US);
Kenneth J. Ruchala, Madison, WI (US);
Gustavo H. Olivera, Madison, WI (US);
Inventors:
Weiguo Lu, Madison, WI (US);
Mingli Chen, Madison, WI (US);
Quan Chen, Madison, WI (US);
Kenneth J. Ruchala, Madison, WI (US);
Gustavo H. Olivera, Madison, WI (US);
Assignee:
Tomotherapy Incorporated, Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/10 (2006.01); A61N 5/01 (2006.01); A61B 5/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method of optimizing delivery of a radiation therapy treatment. The system optimizes treatment delivery in real-time to take into account a variety of factors, such as patient anatomical and physiological changes (e.g., respiration and other movement, etc.), and machine configuration changes (e.g., beam output factors, couch error, leaf error, etc.).