US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE on Sept. 8 for "System and method for pretreatment imaging in adaptive radiation therapy" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,288, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"System and method for pretreatment imaging in adaptive radiation therapy" was invented by Binghuan Li (Shanghai), Jingjie Zhou (Shanghai) and Jonathan Maltz (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for adapting treatment plan are provided. The method may include: obtaining a planning image of a region of interest relating to a first treatment fraction of a first treatment plan; obtaining a first image of the region of interest relating to a first scan of the region of interest with a first dose level; comparing the plan...