US Patent Issued to Anzal Medical on Oct. 14 for "Radiation treatment system comprising a CT apparatus, a treatment planning apparatus, and a radiation control apparatus, radiation control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,702, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Anzal Medical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Radiation treatment system comprising a CT apparatus, a treatment planning apparatus, and a radiation control apparatus, radiation control method, and storage medium" was invented by Hirofumi Arai (Tokyo) and Takeshi Sasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of shift images are generated by shifting a fluoroscopic image by a prescribed increment within a prescribed range in a craniocaudal direction. Then, a normalized correlation coefficient between a DRR image and each of the plurality of shift images is calculated. Next, a shift amount of the sh...