US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 30 for "Method for providing an irradiation plan, device for determining and device for applying the irradiation plan" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,737, issued on June 30, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for providing an irradiation plan, device for determining and device for applying the irradiation plan" was invented by Christian Hofmann (Erlangen, Germany) and Patrick Wohlfahrt (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing an irradiation plan for irradiation of a target volume, comprises: acquiring a time-resolved 3D image dataset, wherein the 3D image dataset is time-resolved over at least one respiratory cycle of the patient, wherein the 3D image dataset is based on a time-resolved scan of an examination regio...