US Patent Issued to Varian Medical Systems Particle Therapy on Oct. 28 for "Patient volume segmentation apparatus and method" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,868, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Varian Medical Systems Particle Therapy GmbH & Co. KG (Troisdorf, Germany).

"Patient volume segmentation apparatus and method" was invented by Xinhui Yang (Oberrohrdorf, Switzerland), Armel Rosselet (Baden, Switzerland) and Daniel von Buren (Sierentz, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By one approach, a control circuit accesses planning computed tomography image information for a particular patient. The control circuit also accesses two-dimensional digital subtraction angiography image information for the particular patient. The control circuit then fuses the planning computed tomography im...