US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL on Dec. 30 for "Using organ similarity metric to determine optimization strategy in adaptive radiation therapy" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,444, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Using organ similarity metric to determine optimization strategy in adaptive radiation therapy" was invented by Esa Kuusela (Espoo, Finland) and Juha Kauppinen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods for using similarity metrics to determine optimization strategy in adaptive radiation therapy, and systems and methods for an automated adaptive workflow to automatically adapt and optimize a treatment plan to a current treatment session using MLC leaf configurations selected based on calculated s...