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Single-arc dose painting for precision radiation therapy

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posted on 2016-06-07, 00:00 authored by Cedric X. Yu, Chao Wang, Danny Z. Chen, Matthew A. Earl, Shuang Luan
Provided herein are methods and systems for designing a radiation treatment for a subject using single arc dose painting. The methods and systems comprise an algorithm or a computer-readable product having the same, to plan the radiation treatment. The algorithm converts pairs of multiple leaf collimation (MLC) leaves to sets of leaf aperture sequences that form a shortest path single arc thereof where the pairs of MLC leaves each aligned to an intensity profile of densely-spaced radiation beams, and connects each single arc of leaf apertures to form a final treatment single arc. Also provided is a method for irradiating a tumor in a subject using single arc dose painting.

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Patent Number

US 8014494 B2

Other Application

12/589,205

Inventor

Cedric X. Yu Shuang Luan Danny Z. Chen Matthew A. Earl Chao Wang

Inventor from Local Institution

Danny Z. Chen

Assignee

University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)

Date Modified

2016-06-07

Language

  • English

Claims

20

Prior Publication Number

US 20110091015 A1

Publisher

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Cooperative Patent Classification Codes

A61N 5/1042 (20130101); A61N 5/1047 (20130101); A61N 5/1036 (20130101)

Contributor

Danny Z. Chen

International Patent Classification Codes

A61N 5/10 (20060101); G21K 1/02 (20060101); H05G 1/42 (20060101)

US Patent Classification Codes

378/65; 378/148; 378/97;

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