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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2013
Applicant:
Microbeam Therapy, Llc, Redwood City, CA (US);
Inventors:
Daniel N. Slatkin, Essex, CT (US);
Fred Harden Geisler, Chicago, IL (US);
Assignee:
MICROBEAM THERAPY, LLC., Redwood City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/1064 (2013.01); A61N 5/1042 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1095 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various embodiments relate to a microbeam radiation therapy (microbeam radiosurgery) system, including: a radiation beam source; a collimator with slits, wherein the collimator only passes a radiation beam from the radiation beam source through the slits; a filtering and limiting system; a source shutoff controller connected to the radiation beam source; and a detector configured to detect events requiring the shutdown of the radiation beam source.