US Patent Issued to BRAINLAB on Aug. 4 for "Computer-implemented medical method for radiation treatment (RT) planning for treating multiple lesions of a patient" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,507, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to BRAINLAB SE (Munich).

"Computer-implemented medical method for radiation treatment (RT) planning for treating multiple lesions of a patient" was invented by Cornelis Kamerling (Munich) and Stefan Schell (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, the method presented herein may determine, which lesions of a patient need modulation, and which not. In an optional step an arc setup optimization is performed for creating the RT treatment plan. Moreover, a conformal shape optimization is performed, preferably for all lesions of the patient. Furthermore, a VMAT optimizati...