US Patent Issued to ISTITUTO TUMORI "GIOVANNI PAOLO II" I.R.C.C.S. on Nov. 11 for "Distributions comparison in pretreatment patient-QA" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,588, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ISTITUTO TUMORI "GIOVANNI PAOLO II" I.R.C.C.S. (Bari, Italy).

"Distributions comparison in pretreatment patient-QA" was invented by Pasquale Tamborra (Terlizzi, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method validate in a patient treatment plan of radiotherapy, the calculated radiation dose by treatment planning system (TPS) software, before its delivery on patient, in order to avoid clinically relevant dose differences in organs at risks, wherein the operator selected isodose levels (i.e. the set of points or zones in a medium that receive the same dose of radiation) are converted ...