US Patent Issued to PTW-Freiburg Physikalisch-Technische Werkstatten Dr. Pychlau, Stichting het Nederlands Kanker Instituut-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ziekenhuis on Jan. 20 for "Method to determine a patient dose distribution and corresponding radiation dosimetry apparatus" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,974, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to PTW-Freiburg Physikalisch-Technische Werkstatten Dr. Pychlau GmbH (Freiburg, Germany) and Stichting het Nederlands Kanker Instituut-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ziekenhuis (Amsterdam).

"Method to determine a patient dose distribution and corresponding radiation dosimetry apparatus" was invented by Julia-Maria Osinga-Blattermann (Schallstadt, Germany) and Igor Olaciregui Ruiz (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method to determine a patient (radiation) dose distribution (13), it is provided to calculate, from a measured signal (7) of a detector (6) placed behind a region of interest, a dose...