US Patent Issued to Canon Medical Systems on April 15 for "Radiotherapy planning apparatus, radiotherapy planning method, and radiotherapy support apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,894, issued on April 15, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Radiotherapy planning apparatus, radiotherapy planning method, and radiotherapy support apparatus" was invented by Masahide Ichihashi (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a radiotherapy planning apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry set irradiation conditions for a medical image relating to a patient. The processing circuitry acquires a histogram of a radiation dose rate in a predetermined area in the patient based on the irradiation conditions. The processing circuitry evaluates th...