ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,404, issued on March 18, was assigned to Elekta LTD. (Crawley, Great Britain).
"Image registration in treatment planning" was invented by Niklas Gunnarsson (Stockholm) and Jens Sjolund (Sundbyberg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of radiation therapy and methods, software and systems for image registration. According to the present invention, methods for image registration of images of a patient comprising are provided. The method may include receiving a set of image data from the patient; selecting one or more tracking regions in the set of image data, each tracking region including ...