US Patent Issued to TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, MARY HITCHCOCK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, FOR ITSELF AND ON BEHALF OF DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK CLINIC on Sept. 30 for "Cherenkov imaging-based solution for MR-Linac quality assurance" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,342, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, N.H.) and MARY HITCHCOCK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, FOR ITSELF AND ON BEHALF OF DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK CLINIC (Lebanon, N.H.).

"Cherenkov imaging-based solution for MR-Linac quality assurance" was invented by Daniel A. Alexander (Hanover, N.H.), Jacqueline Andreozzi (Hanover, N.H.), Petr Bruza (Lebanon, N.H.), Rongxiao Zhang (Lebanon, N.H.) and David J. Gladstone (Lebanon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a cylindrical phantom and a conical structure disposed in the phantom. The conical structure is shaped as a frustum and emits Cherenkov radi...