US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY on June 3 for "Dose-based optimization for multi-leaf collimator ("MLC") tracking during radiation therapy methods and apparatus" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,631, issued on June 3, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY (Sydney).

"Dose-based optimization for multi-leaf collimator ("MLC") tracking during radiation therapy methods and apparatus" was invented by Lars Mejnertsen (Sydney), Paul Keall (Sydney), Doan Trang Nguyen (Sydney) and Emily Hewson (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses and systems are disclosed for dose-based optimization related to multi-leaf collimator ("MLC") tracking during radiation therapy. In an example, a method includes calculating a planned radiation dose using an MLC plan in an un-shifted dose volume, acquiring, using a radiation machine,...