Patents Assigned to Tomotherapy Incorpoated
  • System and method of delivering radiation therapy to a moving region of interest
    Patent number: 8767917
    Abstract: A system for and method of delivering radiation therapy to a moving region of interest is disclosed. The method, in one implementation, includes the acts of generating a plurality of treatment plans for providing radiation therapy, delivering radiation therapy to the patient following one of the plurality of treatment plans, monitoring the patient while providing radiation therapy, and changing the treatment plan based at least in part on monitoring the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Tomotherapy Incorpoated
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Ruchala, Gustavo H. Olivera, Weiguo Lu, Eric Schnarr, John H. Hughes, Jeffrey M. Kapatoes, Thomas R. Mackie, Paul J. Reckwerdt