Patents by Inventor Robert Allan Jacques

Robert Allan Jacques has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Real-time dose computation for radiation therapy using graphics processing unit acceleration of the convolution/superposition dose computation method
    Patent number: 8325878
    Abstract: A system for radiation therapy including a radiation planning system, wherein the radiation planning system comprises a parallel processor adapted to receive input information concerning a body having an intended radiation treatment region and to output information for providing radiation treatment to the intended radiation treatment region of the body, wherein the parallel processor is adapted to perform a plurality of reverse ray tracing calculations based on the input information concerning the body in determining the output information for providing radiation treatment, each of the plurality of reverse ray tracing calculations comprising: calculating a first physical property corresponding to a first sub-region of the intended radiation treatment region of the body that is intersected by a ray traced between a source position and the intended radiation treatment region; and calculating, subsequent to the first-mentioned calculating, a second physical property corresponding to a second sub-region of the in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Todd McNutt, Robert Allan Jacques
  • REAL-TIME DOSE COMPUTATION FOR RADIATION THERAPY USING GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT ACCELERATION OF THE CONVOLUTION/SUPERPOSITION DOSE COMPUTATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20110051893
    Abstract: A system for radiation therapy including a radiation planning system, wherein the radiation planning system comprises a parallel processor adapted to receive input information concerning a body having an intended radiation treatment region and to output information for providing radiation treatment to the intended radiation treatment region of the body, wherein the parallel processor is adapted to perform a plurality of reverse ray tracing calculations based on the input information concerning the body in determining the output information for providing radiation treatment, each of the plurality of reverse ray tracing calculations comprising: calculating a first physical property corresponding to a first sub-region of the intended radiation treatment region of the body that is intersected by a ray traced between a source position and the intended radiation treatment region; and calculating, subsequent to the first-mentioned calculating, a second physical property corresponding to a second sub-region of the in
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Todd R. McNutt, Robert Allan Jacques