US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 24 for "Absolute in vivo radiation dosimetry tool with XACT imaging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,846, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Absolute in vivo radiation dosimetry tool with XACT imaging" was invented by Liangzhong Xiang (Irvine, Calif.) and Leshan Sun (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate generally to increasing the precision of radiotherapy by measuring the absolute dose delivered to the tumor and surrounding normal tissue during the treatment. More particularly, some embodiments relate to an imaging reconstruction system for X-ray-induced acoustic computed tomography (XACT) using a model-based reconstruction met...