摘要:
A system and method of automatically processing data relating to a radiation therapy treatment plan. The method includes the acts of acquiring image data of a patient, generating a treatment plan for the patient based at least in part on the image data, the treatment plan including a calculated radiation dose to be delivered to the patient, acquiring an on-line image of the patient in substantially a treatment position, delivering at least a portion of the calculated radiation dose to the patient, and automatically recalculating the radiation dose received by the patient.
摘要:
In radiotherapy, a high quality imaging array may be placed after the patient and opposite the radiation source to be used during radiation treatment to verify operation of a shutter system or similar device and/or to compute dose delivered to the patient. A model of the patient may be used and inverted in order to estimate values of energy fluence prior to absorption by the patient and overlapping of the various radiation beams passing through the patient. A test pattern of shutter excitation to illuminate a single ray at a time provides a simple method of obtaining the necessary model. The dose from this test pattern may be subtracted from the subsequent radiation treatment so as to provide limited or no increase in total dose to the patient.
摘要:
A system and method of evaluating a radiation dose delivered to a patient receiving radiation therapy. The method includes the acts of generating a time-based series of patient images, collecting a time-based series of data indicating patient motion, and evaluating a radiation dose delivered to the patient based upon the time-based series of patient images and the time-based series of data.
摘要:
A system and method of predicting a radiation dose to be delivered to a patient. The method includes the acts of generating a first image of at least a portion of the patient, defining a treatment plan for the patient, generating a second image of at least a portion of the patient while the patient is substantially in a treatment position, updating the patient profile with the second image, and predicting the radiation dose to be delivered to the patient based upon the patient profile and the treatment plan.
摘要:
A radiation treatment system and method of commissioning the system, the system including a gantry, a radiation source operable to produce a beam of radiation, and a measurement device. The measurement device is physically connected to the gantry, and includes a multi-dimensional scanning arm, and a detector. The method includes generating radiation from the radiation source, passing the radiation through an attenuation block, and receiving radiation with the measurement device. The measurement device is positioned such that it is not in contact with water. Data is generated from the radiation received and the system is commissioned using the generated data to match system characteristics to a previously defined standard.
摘要:
A system and method of evaluating dose delivered by a radiation therapy system using a marker that indicates motion. The marker is associated with the patient. In one method of operation, the method includes delivering radiation to the patient, monitoring motion of the marker during the delivering radiation, and evaluating a dose delivered to the patient based at least in part on the motion of the marker. In another method of operation, the method includes delivering radiation to the patient, obtaining information relating to the delivery of radiation, estimating dose to the marker based at least in part on the information, acquiring dose received by the marker, and comparing the received dose with the estimated dose.
摘要:
Reduced dose megavoltage CT images are obtained using low flux data resulting from leakage through modulating shutters and/or collected by other means and augmented by incomplete high flux data collected during radiation therapy. The ability to construct tomographic projection sets from significantly varying flux rate data is provided by the use of air scans windowed to account for variations in mechanical leaf movement. These methods are also provide a means of imaging the patient entirely during radiation therapy treatments without any additional scan time.
摘要:
Radiotherapy controlling, treatment sinograms may be directly modified to correct for real time motion of patients or portions of patients resulting from physiological or other activity. Precalculated partial sinograms representing treatments of portions of a patient may be assembled to obtain a treatment sinogram for the entire patient without delay from conventional planning software. The partial sinograms are modified as representations of their corresponding portions and manipulated to conform to the particular dimensions of an actual patient. This constructed sinogram may be used directly or as a starting point for iterative optimization.
摘要:
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.
摘要:
A system and method of optimizing delivery of a radiation therapy treatment. The system optimizes treatment delivery in real-time to take into account a variety of factors, such as patient anatomical and physiological changes (e.g., respiration and other movement, etc.), and machine configuration changes (e.g., beam output factors, couch error, leaf error, etc.).