US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers International on April 21 for "Radiation treatment plan optimization employing a morphed fluence map" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,564, issued on April 21, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers International AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Radiation treatment plan optimization employing a morphed fluence map" was invented by Tuomas Tallinen (Espoo, Finland), Esa Kuusela (Espoo, Finland) and Shahab Basiri (Siuntio, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit calculates at least a first and a second fluence map corresponding to a given patient and then provides at least a third fluence map by morphing between the first and the second fluence map. Radiation treatment plan optimization can proceed as a function, at least in part, of those fluence maps. ...