Control device for controlling an irradiation procedure, particle therapy unit, and method for irradiating a target volume

US8071966B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Werner Kaiser · Langquaid, DE
• Peter van Haßelt · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 29, 2008
• Grant date: Dec 6, 2011
• Expiry date: Oct 27, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61N2005/1087
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present embodiments relate to a control device for controlling an irradiation procedure, which is designed in such a way that a target volume is irradiated by at least two irradiation procedures. In each irradiation procedure, an energy of a particle beam is varied in such a way that the target volume is irradiated layer-wise in layers that are spatially arranged one behind another. A sequence in which the layers of the target volume are irradiated in one of the irradiation procedures is varied from irradiation procedure to irradiation procedure, in terms of a direction of incidence of the particle beam.