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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2016
Varian Medical Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hong Wan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Raymond Kraft, Seattle, WA (US);
Sun-Kai Lin, Seattle, WA (US);
Stephen C. Phillips, Woodinville, WA (US);
Anthony Harrington, Woodinville, WA (US);
Hassan Mostafavi, Los Altos, CA (US);
Alexander Sloutsky, Burlingame, CA (US);
Andrew G. Jeung, Mountain View, CA (US);
Varian Medical Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of detecting a possible collision in a medical procedure that involves a medical system, includes: obtaining an image of a patient that is supported on a patient support; determining a first model using a processing unit based at least in part on the image, at least a part of the first model representing a surface of the patient; determining a second model using the processing unit, the second model representing a first component of the medical system; virtually moving the first model, the second model, or both, using a collision prediction mechanism to simulate a movement of the first component of the medical system to determine whether there is a possible collision between the first component and the patient; and generating an output to indicate the possible collision or an absence of the possible collision.