US Patent Issued to University of Iowa Research Foundation on June 30 for "High-dose-rate brachytherapy with optimal needle placement for prostate cancer" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,736, issued on June 30, was assigned to University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa).

"High-dose-rate brachytherapy with optimal needle placement for prostate cancer" was invented by Xiaodong Wu (Iowa City, Iowa), Weiyu Xu (Iowa City, Iowa) and Jirong Yi (Iowa City, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for needle position optimization for prostate brachytherapy for use with a radiation delivery device configured to use a plurality of needles inserted into a prostate of a patient includes obtaining imagery of the prostate of the patient, generating a needle pool for prostate brachytherapy treatment of the patient b...