ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,287, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).
"Adjoint transport for dose in treatment trajectory optimization for external beam radiation therapy" was invented by Santtu Ollila (Helsinki), Todd Arlin Wareing (Blackfoot, Idaho), John Morton McGhee (Hollis, N.H.), Douglas Allen Barnett Jr. (Pattersonville, N.Y.) and Alexander Enrique Maslowski (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of trajectory optimization for radiotherapy treatment includes providing a patient model having one or more regions of interest (ROIs), defining a delivery coordinate space (DCS), for each...