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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2014
Applicant:
University of Iowa Research Foundation, Iowa City, IA (US);
Inventors:
Ryan Flynn, Iowa City, IA (US);
Daniel Hyer, Iowa City, IA (US);
Dongxu Wang, Iowa City, IA (US);
Patrick Hill, Iowa City, IA (US);
Yves Claereboudt, Nil-St-Vincent, BE;
Assignee:
University of Iowa Research Foundation, Iowa City, IA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/10 (2006.01); G21K 1/04 (2006.01); G21K 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/1043 (2013.01); A61N 5/103 (2013.01); G21K 1/04 (2013.01); G21K 1/10 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1076 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1087 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1095 (2013.01);
Abstract
A spot scanning (SS) ion therapy system configured for dynamic trimming of an ion particle pencil beam to reduce the amount of the radiation dosage outside of a target boundary.