US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Nov. 3 for "Method and device for real-time monitoring of an applied radiation dose" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,249, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and device for real-time monitoring of an applied radiation dose" was invented by Stefan Popescu (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for monitoring in real time a radiation dose applied by an irradiation device in a target area by a magnetic resonance tomography unit. The irradiation device is configured to emit the radiation in a form that is modulated in intensity in the acoustic frequency range. The irradiation device radiates modulated radiation into the target area, during which the magnetic...