Methods for real-time image guided radiation therapy

    公开(公告)号:US11633626B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-25

    申请号:US17235812

    申请日:2021-04-20

    IPC分类号: A61N5/10

    摘要: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for guiding the delivery of therapeutic radiation using incomplete or partial images acquired during a treatment session. A partial image does not have enough information to determine the location of a target region due to, for example, poor or low contrast and/or low SNR. The radiation fluence calculation methods described herein do not require knowledge or calculation of the target location, and yet may help to provide real-time image guided radiation therapy using arbitrarily low SNR images.

    Methods for PET detector afterglow management

    公开(公告)号:US11287540B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-29

    申请号:US16887896

    申请日:2020-05-29

    摘要: Disclosed herein are methods and devices for the acquisition of positron emission (or PET) data in the presence of ionizing radiation that causes afterglow of PET detectors. In one variation, the method comprises adjusting a coincidence trigger threshold of the PET detectors during a therapy session. In one variation, the method comprises adjusting a gain factor used in positron emission data acquisition (e.g., a gain factor used to multiply and/or shift the output(s) of a PET detector(s)) during a therapy session. In some variations, a method for acquiring positron emission data during a radiation therapy session comprises suspending communication between the PET detectors and a signal processor of a controller for a predetermined period of time after a radiation pulse has been emitted by the linac.

    Methods for real-time image guided radiation therapy

    公开(公告)号:US11033757B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-15

    申请号:US16554258

    申请日:2019-08-28

    IPC分类号: A61N5/10

    摘要: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for guiding the delivery of therapeutic radiation using incomplete or partial images acquired during a treatment session. A partial image does not have enough information to determine the location of a target region due to, for example, poor or low contrast and/or low SNR. The radiation fluence calculation methods described herein do not require knowledge or calculation of the target location, and yet may help to provide real-time image guided radiation therapy using arbitrarily low SNR images.

    Methods for real-time image guided radiation therapy

    公开(公告)号:US10688320B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-23

    申请号:US15993325

    申请日:2018-05-30

    IPC分类号: A61N5/10

    摘要: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for guiding the delivery of therapeutic radiation using incomplete or partial images acquired during a treatment session. A partial image does not have enough information to determine the location of a target region due to, for example, poor or low contrast and/or low SNR. The radiation fluence calculation methods described herein do not require knowledge or calculation of the target location, and yet may help to provide real-time image guided radiation therapy using arbitrarily low SNR images.

    Methods for PET detector afterglow management

    公开(公告)号:US11675097B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-13

    申请号:US17697828

    申请日:2022-03-17

    摘要: Disclosed herein are methods and devices for the acquisition of positron emission (or PET) data in the presence of ionizing radiation that causes afterglow of PET detectors. In one variation, the method comprises adjusting a coincidence trigger threshold of the PET detectors during a therapy session. In one variation, the method comprises adjusting a gain factor used in positron emission data acquisition (e.g., a gain factor used to multiply and/or shift the output(s) of a PET detector(s)) during a therapy session. In some variations, a method for acquiring positron emission data during a radiation therapy session comprises suspending communication between the PET detectors and a signal processor of a controller for a predetermined period of time after a radiation pulse has been emitted by the linac.

    Systems and methods for shuttle mode radiation delivery

    公开(公告)号:US11439844B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-13

    申请号:US17150977

    申请日:2021-01-15

    IPC分类号: A61N5/10

    摘要: Systems and methods for shuttle mode radiation delivery are described herein. One method for radiation delivery comprises moving the patient platform through the patient treatment region multiple times during a treatment session. This may be referred to as patient platform or couch shuttling (i.e., couch shuttle mode). Another method for radiation delivery comprises moving the therapeutic radiation source jaw across a range of positions during a treatment session. The jaw may move across the same range of positions multiple times during a treatment session. This may be referred to as jaw shuttling (i.e., jaw shuttle mode). Some methods combine couch shuttle mode and jaw shuttle mode. Methods of dynamic or pipelined normalization are also described.