Method for preparing a radiation therapy plan
US6560311B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 15, 2001 |
| Grant date | May 6, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 15, 2021 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG16H20/40
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method for determining a radiation treatment plan for a radiotherapy system providing multiple individual rays of intensity modulated radiation iteratively optimized the fluence of an initial set of such rays by a function that requires knowledge of only the prescribed dose and the dose resulting from the particular ray fluences. In this way, the need to store individual dose distributions of each ray are eliminated.
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