ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,890, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to City of Hope (Duarte, Calif.).
"Systems and methods related to dosimetry for radioembolization, chemoembolization, and drug eluting embolization procedures" was invented by Franz E. Boas (Duarte, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are configured to determine an effective local dose for a treatment procedure. The systems and methods are configured to determine a mean dose of a particle and a particle density at least a portion of tumor and at least a portion of normal tissue, perform a microdosimetry simulation or calculation, using the mean dose and the particle density, an...