US Patent Issued to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Sept. 8 for "Methods and systems for automated volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for external radiation therapy" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,286, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York).

"Methods and systems for automated volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for external radiation therapy" was invented by Joseph O. Deasy (New York), Pinar Dursun Gunduz (New York) and Masoud Zarepisheh (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatment planning include a processor determining, using a current solution of a non-convex VMAT optimization problem, a search region defining a corresponding spatial movement range for each leaf of a plurality of leaves of a MLC. The curr...