US Patent Issued to Elekta on June 17 for "Techniques for adaptive radiotherapy based on CBCT projection correction and reconstruction" (British, Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,986, issued on June 17, was assigned to Elekta LTD. (Montreal).

"Techniques for adaptive radiotherapy based on CBCT projection correction and reconstruction" was invented by Jonathan Hugh Mason (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Joseph Stancanello (Gif sur Yvette, France), Martin Emile Lachaine (Montreal) and Roushanak Rahmat (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for processing of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) image data, in connection with radiotherapy planning and treatments. Example operations for a radiotherapy workflow include: obtaining a plurality of newly captured CBCT projec...