US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL on Jan. 28 for "Driving deterministic dose depositions with monte carlo source modeling" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,283, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Driving deterministic dose depositions with monte carlo source modeling" was invented by Alexander Maslowski (Peachtree City, Ga.), Douglas Allen Barnett (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Todd Wareing (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for coupling Monte Carlo source modeling with deterministic dose calculations. An internal volumetric first scatter distributed source of a patient is determined using Monte Carlo simulations and ingested into one or more dosing algorithms. The dosing algo...