US Patent Issued to Varian Medical Systems on Feb. 10 for "Apparatus and method for real-time tracking of tissue structures" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,042, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Varian Medical Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for real-time tracking of tissue structures" was invented by Ralf Bruder (Luebeck, Germany) and Achim Schweikard (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are disclosed for radiosurgical treatment of moving tissues of the heart, including acquiring at least one volume of the tissue and acquiring at least one ultrasound data set, image or volume of the tissue using an ultrasound transducer disposed at a position. A similarity measure is computed between the ultrasound image or volume and the acquire...