US Patent Issued to Emory University, Washington University on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for generating material maps for treatment planning using Monte Carlo methods" (Georgia, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,161, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Emory University (Atlanta) and Washington University (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for generating material maps for treatment planning using Monte Carlo methods" was invented by Liyong Lin (Atlanta), Serdar Charyyev (Atlanta), Chih-Wei Chang (Atlanta), Tiezhi Zhang (Crev Coeur, Mo.), Xiaofeng Yang (Atlanta) and Joseph Harms (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to systems and methods for accurate generation of material maps of volume of interests, for example, that include implants, for proton radiation therapy. In one implementation, the method may include determin...