US Patent Issued to Canon Medical Systems on March 25 for "Radiotherapy planning apparatus and method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,452, issued on March 25, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Radiotherapy planning apparatus and method" 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 is configured to acquire dose rate distribution information indicating distribution of a dose rate in an irradiation path of radiation based on irradiation conditions of the radiation. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire irradiation effect discrimination information for discriminating irradia...