US Patent Issued to Elekta on Nov. 11 for "MRI-based motion monitoring and gating for radiotherapy" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,788, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"MRI-based motion monitoring and gating for radiotherapy" was invented by Joshua Freedman (Crawley, Great Britain), Fabienne Lathuiliere (Outremont, Canada), Martin Emile Lachaine (Montreal) and David Roberts (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems, methods and radiotherapy devices for monitoring the position of a subject during radiotherapy, which comprise obtaining an MR image slice of a subject that exhibits through-plane distortion, obtaining a pre-treatment image slice of the subject that corresponds to the MR ...