Abstract:
방사선 치료 평가 시스템을 제공한다. 본 발명의 일 실시예에 따른 방사선 치료 평가 시스템은 대상물의 조직에 삽입되며, 금속 재질로 이루어진 적어도 하나의 측정 마커(610, 620, 630)를 포함하는 측정 마커 유닛(600), 상기 조직에 브래그 피크(bragg peak) 특성을 갖는 입자선을 조사하는 입자선 조사기(500), 상기 측정 마커 유닛(600)에 대한 방사선 영상을 촬영하는 적어도 하나의 방사선 감지 카메라(300) 및 상기 촬영된 방사선 영상을 이용하여, 방사선을 방출한 측정 마커의 카메라-기준 좌표를 산출하는 컴퓨팅 장치(400)를 포함하는 것일 수 있다.
Abstract:
A radiation therapy system (100) includes a radiation therapy (RT) optimizer unit (102) and an interactive planning interface unit (120). The RT optimizer unit (102) receives at least one target structure and at least one organ-at-risk (OAR) structure segmented from a volumetric image (108), and generates an optimized RT plan (140) based on dose objectives (200-204, 210-222, 320), at least one dose objective of the dose objectives corresponding to each of the at least one target structure (210-222) and the at least one OAR structure (200-204). The optimized RT plan includes a planned radiation dose for each voxel of the volumetric image using external beam radiation therapy, wherein the RT optimizer unit operates iteratively. The interactive planning interface unit (120) interactively controls each of the dose objectives through controls (300) displayed on a single display (126) of a display device (124), operates the RT optimizer unit to iteratively compute the planned radiation dose according to the controls, and provide visual feedback (310, 134) on the single display according to progress of the RT optimizer unit after each trial.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a computer-implemented medical data processing method for determining an irradiation trajectory for the movement of a treatment device for irradiating an anatomical structure with ionising treatment radiation, the method comprising executing, on at least one processor of at least one computer, steps of: a) acquiring (S1), at the at least one processor, medical image data describing a medical image of the anatomical structure, wherein the anatomical structure comprises both a target region which defines a target of the irradiation and non-target tissue, wherein irradiation of the non-target tissue shall be avoided; b) determining (S2), by the at least one processor and based on the medical image data, image concavity data describing a value of a measure of concavity of at least part of the target region described by the medical image; c) acquiring (S3), at the at least one processor, predetermined concavity data describing a predetermined value of the measure of concavity for the at least part of the target region; d) determining (S4), by the at least one processor and based on the image concavity data and the predetermined concavity data, partition data describing whether the at least part of the target region is to be partitioned into target region partitions; e) if the partitioning data describes that the target region is to be partitioned, determining (S5), by the at least one processor and based on the medical image data, partition boundary data describing the position of a partition boundary between the target region partitions, wherein the position of the partition boundary is defined in a reference system in which positions in the medical image are defined; and f) determining (S6), by the at least one processor and based on the partition boundary data, irradiation trajectory data describing at least one trajectory of the treatment device usable for irradiating a target region partition with the ionising treatment radiation, wherein at least one trajectory is determined individually for each target region partition.
Abstract:
A computer implemented method for performing fusion of 3D image data, which represent at least a part of a patient's body, with two 2D images of the patient's body with a known spatial relation between the viewing directions of the 2D images, comprising the steps of: -acquiring the 3D image data, -acquiring the two 2D images, -calculating two virtual images from the 3D image data, the two virtual images corresponding to the two 2D images, -classifying the two 2D images into a primary and a secondary image, -determining a primary alignment between the primary image and the corresponding virtual image such that they match, -calculating a spatial axis relative to the viewing directions of the two 2D images from the primary alignment and a predetermined point which is imaged in the virtual image which corresponds to the primary image, wherein the spatial axis is a line in space on which the predetermined point lies, and -performing fusion of the 3D image data with the two 2D images based on the calculated spatial axis in order to obtain a virtual position of the 3D image data in space.
Abstract:
A method includes determining a set of candidate beam directions. The radiation therapy method further includes selecting a sub-set of non-coplanar beam directions of interest from the set of candidate beam directions based on a fluence optimization using a beam angle selection algorithm. The radiation therapy method further includes determining a set of delivery options based on a beam trajectory algorithm, wherein the delivery options at least include a non-coplanar trajectory during radiation treatment delivery. The radiation therapy method further includes optimizing the delivery options to generate a VMAT radiation plan with non-coplanar beam trajectories. The optimizing of the delivery options includes optimizing at least one machine parameter.
Abstract:
The treatment planning engine empowers radiation treatment decision makers, such as a physician, to efficiently identify effective radiation treatment outcomes for a given patient during the contouring stage. Specifically, using the treatment planning engine, the physician may iteratively and in real-time evaluate different treatment outcomes for a patient before selecting an optimal outcome that will guide the delivery of radiation treatment to the patient. By providing real-time information as to potential toxicity and treatment efficacy during the contouring stage, the physician is empowered to make informed decisions at the preliminary contouring stage.
Abstract:
Embodiments generally relate to cancer treatment with radiation sources. The present technology discloses techniques that can enable an automatic generation of radiotherapy trajectories using anatomical data of a patient. It can improve conformal dose distributions and target volume coverage by considering a radiation risk decided by an organs-at-risk (OAR)'s relative location to the target volume and the radiation source.
Abstract:
A computerized method of providing automatic anatomy recognition (AAR) includes gathering image data from patient image sets, formulating precise definitions of each body region and organ and delineating them following the definitions, building hierarchical fuzzy anatomy models of organs for each body region, recognizing and locating organs in given images by employing the hierarchical models, and delineating the organs following the hierarchy. The method may be applied, for example, to body regions including the thorax, abdomen and neck regions to identify organs.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a system (10) for providing an object (2) in a body (1), a processor (18) arranged to be used in the system (10) for providing an object (2) in a body(1), an instrument (12) for providing an object (2) into a body (1), a method for detecting a providing of an object (2) in a body (1) and a software product for detecting a providing of an object (2) in a body (1). In order to allow for a providing of an object (2) in a body (1) and a detecting thereof while avoiding the drawbacks on the known approaches, e.g. giving an opportunity for reliable localization in ultrasound images used for real-time monitoring of a medical procedure with reduced error proneness to electromagnetic interference, the invention utilizes the finding that the characteristics of a reception or transmission of an ultrasound transducer (24, 26) are influenced by the surrounding environment of the ultrasound transducer (24, 26). By detecting changes in the characteristics the presence or absence of an object (2) to be provided at the ultrasound transducer (24, 26) is determined.