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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2012
Applicant:
Michael Dean Wright, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Michael Dean Wright, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/10 (2006.01); H05G 1/30 (2006.01); G21K 5/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/1031 (2013.01); A61N 5/1042 (2013.01); A61N 5/10 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1091 (2013.01); G21K 5/04 (2013.01); H05G 1/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of performing microbeam radiosurgery on a patient whereby target tissue within a patient is irradiated with high energy electromagnetic radiation via one or more microbeam envelopes with photons having respective energy magnitudes in excess of 200 keV, and maximum defined beam widths sufficiently narrow to yield a biological damage width which does not exceed a predetermined value.