US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers International on Feb. 17 for "Method and apparatus to facilitate administering therapeutic radiation to a patient" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,720, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers International AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Method and apparatus to facilitate administering therapeutic radiation to a patient" was invented by Elena Czeizler (Helsinki), Esa Kuusela (Espoo, Finland), Mikko Hakala (Rajamaki, Finland) and Shahab Basiri (Siuntio, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit accesses patient image content as well as field geometry information regarding a particular radiation treatment platform. The control circuit then generates a predicted three-dimensional dose map for the radiation treatment plan as a function of both the pat...