US Patent Issued to Elekta on Dec. 30 for "Machine learning based dose guided real-time adaptive radiotherapy" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,446, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Elekta AB (publ) (Stockholm).

"Machine learning based dose guided real-time adaptive radiotherapy" was invented by David Andreas Tilly (Uppsala, Sweden), Stella Lucie Riad (Sundbyberg, Sweden), Peter Kimstrand (Uppsala, Sweden), Nina Terese Tilly (Uppsala, Sweden) and Klas Marcks von Wurtemberg (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for adjusting radiotherapy treatment for a patient in real-time are provided. The techniques include obtaining a training patient anatomy at a first time within a training radiotherapy treatment fraction after a training radiotherapy treatment dose has...