US 11,986,677 B2
Triggered treatment systems and methods
Christel Smith, Santa Barbara, CA (US); Corey Zankowski, San Jose, CA (US); Jan Hein Timmer, Los Altos, CA (US); Wolfgang Kaissl, Wil (CH); Deepak Khuntia, Los Altos, CA (US); Eric Abel, San Jose, CA (US); Josh Star-Lack, Palo Alto, CA (US); and Camille Noel, St. Louis, MO (US)
Assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG, Steinhausen (CH); and VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by Varian Medical Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US); and Varian Medical Systems International AG., Cham (CH)
Filed on Dec. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/132,966.
Application 17/132,966 is a continuation of application No. 16/237,502, filed on Dec. 31, 2018, granted, now 10,898,730.
Application 16/237,502 is a continuation of application No. 15/657,072, filed on Jul. 21, 2017, granted, now 10,183,179, issued on Jan. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0113856 A1, Apr. 22, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61N 5/00 (2006.01); A61N 5/10 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61N 5/1069 (2013.01) [A61N 5/1049 (2013.01); A61N 5/1067 (2013.01); A61N 5/1077 (2013.01); A61B 2090/0481 (2016.02); A61N 2005/1061 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1094 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A radiation therapy method comprising:
loading a planning image of a target in a human;
monitoring a position of the target;
computing an occurrence of substantial alignment between the position of the target and the target of the planning image, the computing comprises a visual representation comprising a region of interest, the computing comprises summing a magnitude of a real-time deformation vector-field within the region of interest; and
after the computing, triggering a beam of radiation to deliver radiation therapy to the target in less than a second.