US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on April 7 for "Combined radiation acoustics and ultrasound for radiotherapy guidance and cancer targeting" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,437, issued on April 7, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Combined radiation acoustics and ultrasound for radiotherapy guidance and cancer targeting" was invented by Issam El Naqa (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Xueding Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Paul Carson (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kyle Cuneo (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jean Moran (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Wei Zhang (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ibrahim Oraiqat (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for performing online adapted radiotherapy are provided using combined ultrasound and ionizing radiation induced acoustic imaging (iRAI) computed tomog...