Radiation therapy system with constrained rotational freedom
US5724400A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 25, 1996 |
| Grant date | Mar 3, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 25, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61B6/027
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A radiation therapy machine has a constrained angular freedom to produce a beam only within a gantry plane. A radiation shield may be stationary and not attached to the gantry or rotating to always block the primary beam. The constrained motion reduces the risk of patient/gantry collision and provides for extremely accurate radiation therapy planning. The therapy machine, so constrained, may include a tomographic imaging system on a single gantry. The two systems cooperate and employ many of the same hardware components to both plan and carry out therapy sessions in which irregularly shaped treatment volumes are accurately irradiated while tissue surrounding those volumes is minimally irradiated.
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