US Patent Issued to RefleXion Medical on Jan. 13 for "Methods for real-time image guided radiation therapy" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,571, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to RefleXion Medical Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Methods for real-time image guided radiation therapy" was invented by Yevgen Voronenko (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Peter Demetri Olcott (Los Gatos, Calif.), Debashish Pal (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Rostem Bassalow (Lacey, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for guiding the delivery of therapeutic radiation using incomplete or partial images acquired during a treatment session. A partial image does not have enough information to determine the location of a target region due to, for example, poor or low contrast and/or low...