US Patent Issued to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS on April 29 for "Single-pass imaging and radiation treatment delivery via an extended rotation gantry" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,635, issued on April 29, was assigned to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Single-pass imaging and radiation treatment delivery via an extended rotation gantry" was invented by Blake Gaderlund (Mountain View, Calif.), Josh Star-Lack (Palo Alto, Calif.), John Van Heteren (Foster City, Calif.) and Adam Wang (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of radiation therapy in a radiation therapy system that includes a gantry with a treatment-delivering X-ray source and an imaging X-ray source mounted thereon is described. The method includes rotating the gantry in a first direction at a first rotat...