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- Patent Title: Radiotherapy apparatus with calibration
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Application No.: US16604904Application Date: 2018-03-27
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Publication No.: US11752363B2Publication Date: 2023-09-12
- Inventor: Julian Byrne
- Applicant: Elekta Limited
- Applicant Address: GB West Sussex
- Assignee: Elekta Limited
- Current Assignee: Elekta Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Crawley
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Priority: GB 05865 2017.04.11
- International Application: PCT/EP2018/057812 2018.03.27
- International Announcement: WO2018/188949A 2018.10.18
- Date entered country: 2019-10-11
- Main IPC: A61N5/10
- IPC: A61N5/10 ; A61B6/04 ; A61B6/00

Abstract:
A radiotherapy apparatus is disclosed, having an imaging system and a therapeutic radiation source, an imageable volume into which therapeutic radiation may be provided, a first imaging means for providing an image resulting from the imaging system and a second imaging means for providing an image resulting from the therapeutic radiation, and a patient support moveable relative to the volume, wherein the patient support is provided with a calibration portion comprising at least one object of a material capable of appearing in the image produced by the first imaging means and at least one object of a material capable of appearing in the image produced by the second imaging means, the at least one object being fixed in a pre-determined position relative to the calibration portion and the calibration portion being fixed in a pre-determined position relative to the patient support, the patient support being moveable so that the at least one object portion may optionally be positioned within or outside the volume.
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