US Patent Issued to Varian Medical Systems on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods for planning of cardiac radiation therapy" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,129, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Varian Medical Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for planning of cardiac radiation therapy" was invented by Tiziano Passerini (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Puneet Sharma (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for predicting a location of a target heart region for cardiac ablation can include one or more processors generating a 3D model of a heart of a patient based on medical images of the patient, and estimating, using the 3D model of the heart and electrophysiology data of the patient, one or more mechanical properties that drive motion of the...