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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2011
Michael Meltsner, Fitchburg, WI (US);
Ying Xiong, Naperville, IL (US);
Michael Kaus, Madison, WI (US);
Michael Meltsner, Fitchburg, WI (US);
Ying Xiong, Naperville, IL (US);
Michael Kaus, Madison, WI (US);
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
When performing multimodal radiotherapy planning, an optimizer () concurrently optimizes a combined treatment plan that employs an intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) device () and an intensity modulated proton therapy (IMPT) that respectively generate a photon beam and an ion beam for treating a volume of interest () in a patient (). A simulator () iteratively generates multiple variations of a simulation model () according to optimization parameters that are varied by the optimizer () until the simulation model () satisfies user-entered treatment objective criteria () (e.g., maximum dose, does placement, etc.)