US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers International on Aug. 12 for "Biological equivalent dose informed flash radiation therapy" (American, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,765, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers International AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Biological equivalent dose informed flash radiation therapy" was invented by Pierre Lansonneur (Lyons, France), Michael Folkerts (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Miriam Krieger (Halle, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit accesses information representing radiation dose deposition as a function of time for a particular patient as well as at least one biological parameter for that particular patient. The control circuit then determines a biological equivalent dose for the particular patient as a function of both the i...