Patents Assigned to MICROBEAM THEARPY, LLC.
  • Low dose-rate radiation for medical and veterinary therapies with three dimensionally shaped profiles
    Patent number: 9375587
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a method of performing microbeam radiation therapy (microbeam radiosurgery) for a subject, including: producing a high-energy radiation beam; shaping, attenuating, strengthening, hardening and/or otherwise appropriately modifying the high-energy radiation beam using a low-Z, high-Z, or variable-Z filter; passing the beam before or after it has been so modified through a collimator to produce high-dose regions alternating with low-dose regions; and irradiating the subject with the collimated beam so modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: MICROBEAM THEARPY, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel N. Slatkin, Fred Harden Geisler