US Patent Issued to Canon Medical Systems on Feb. 17 for "Radiotherapy planning apparatus and radiotherapy system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,721, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Radiotherapy planning apparatus and radiotherapy system" was invented by Masahide Ichihashi (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiotherapy planning apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains a medical image relating to a patient. The processing circuitry obtains number of beams and beam directions of a plurality of radiation beams applied substantially simultaneously to an irradiation area of the patient. The processing circuitry generates a total dose rate distribution which is a spatial distribution o...