US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers International on May 19 for "Treatment planning methods and systems that control the uniformity of dose distributions of radiation treatment fields" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,542, issued on May 19, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers International AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Treatment planning methods and systems that control the uniformity of dose distributions of radiation treatment fields" was invented by Petri Hirvonen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for radiation treatment planning use objective function formulations to evaluate a proposed (candidate) radiation treatment plan, to determine whether or not clinical goals that are specified for treatment of a patient are satisfied by the plan. Dose distributions for a region of a target volume are generated. A valu...