US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL on July 21 for "Position verification and correction for radiation therapy using nonorthogonal on-board imaging" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,880, issued on July 21, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Switzerland).

"Position verification and correction for radiation therapy using nonorthogonal on-board imaging" was invented by Reto Filiberti (Baar, Switzerland) and Niklaus Schar (Wikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for a radiation therapy system includes: acquiring a first X-ray image of a region while the region is in a first location, the gantry is in a first imaging position, and a center axis of an imaging beam passes through an isocenter of the radiation therapy system along a first imaging path; acquirin...