US Patent Issued to Elekta on Sept. 15 for "Automated qualitative description of anatomical changes in radiotherapy" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,374, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Elekta Inc. (Atlanta).

"Automated qualitative description of anatomical changes in radiotherapy" was invented by Maria Luiza Bondar (Waalre, Netherlands), Matthieu Frederic Bal (Geldrop, Netherlands) and Alfonso Agatino Isola (Norderstedt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for monitoring anatomical changes in a subject in radiation therapy are provided, as well as an arrangement for medical imaging and analysis and a computer program product for carrying out the method. For monitoring anatomical changes in a subject in radiation therapy, the following steps are perf...