ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,566, issued on July 1, was assigned to Elekta LTD. (Montreal).
"Quality assurance for MR-Linac" was invented by Daniel Letourneau (Toronto) and Elaine Conneely (Hamilton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes procedures to automate quality assurance testing for radiotherapy equipment that includes MR-Linac devices that are agnostic as to the manufacturer and vendor of the equipment. The present disclosure includes a process for performing a validation procedure for the linear accelerator of the MR-Linac device. The present disclosure includes a process for analyzing quality of the images produced by the...