US Patent Issued to Elekta on March 31 for "Automated detection of lung conditions for monitoring thoracic patients undergoing external beam radiation therapy" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,309, issued on March 31, was assigned to Elekta Inc. (Atlanta).

"Automated detection of lung conditions for monitoring thoracic patients undergoing external beam radiation therapy" was invented by Maria Luiza Bondar (Waalre, Netherlands), Jacek Lukasz Kustra (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Sergio Consoli (Nuenen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized system (SRS) for radiation therapy support. The system comprises an input interface (IN) for receiving an input image acquired by an imaging apparatus (IA1). The input image represents a region of interest (ROI) internal of a patient (PAT) and acquired before delivery o...