US 12,285,633 B2
Device and a method for monitoring a treatment of a body part of a patient with particles
Joao Seco, Heidelberg (DE); Paulo Jorge Magalhaes Martins, Heidelberg (DE); and Riccardo Dal Bello, Heidelberg (DE)
Assigned to Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg (DE)
Appl. No. 17/597,624
Filed by Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg (DE)
PCT Filed Jul. 16, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/070128
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 14, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/009281, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 21, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19186728 (EP), filed on Jul. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0249872 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. A61N 5/10 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 5/1069 (2013.01) [A61N 5/1065 (2013.01); A61N 5/1071 (2013.01); A61N 5/1081 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1074 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1087 (2013.01); A61N 2005/109 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for monitoring a treatment of a body part of a patient with a beam comprising particles, the device comprising:
a beam delivering unit designated for delivering a beam comprising particles and adjusting a direction of propagation of the beam onto a body part of a patient;
a verification unit designated for verifying a range and a dose delivery of the particles provided by the beam to the body part of the patient by determining information about prompt-gamma radiation generated by an interaction of the particles with the body part of the patient at at least two individual interaction points,
wherein the verification unit comprises a symmetry axis which is symmetrical with respect to the at least two individual interaction points and which is located perpendicular with respect to the direction of the propagation of the beam, wherein the symmetry axis relates to a set-up and an arrangement of the verification unit in which two halves of the verification unit being generated by the symmetry axis are identical with respect to each other; and
a single rotational gantry and a patient positioning platform, wherein the patient positioning platform is designated for receiving the patient, wherein at least one of the gantry and the patient positioning platform is movable with respect to the other, wherein the gantry comprises a moveable side wall and a moveable front wall, wherein the front wall is placed perpendicular with respect to the side wall, wherein the direction of the propagation of the beam is adjustable to different positions with respect to the body part of the patient.