Patents by Inventor Claudia Offermann

Claudia Offermann 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).

  • Dose distribution modeling by region from functional imaging
    Patent number: 8812240
    Abstract: Functional imaging information is used to determine a probability of residual disease given a treatment. The functional imaging information shows different characteristic levels for different regions of the tumor. The probability is output for planning use and/or used to automatically determine dose by region. Using the probability, the dose may be distributed by region so that some regions receive a greater dose than other regions. This distribution by region of dose more likely treats the tumor with a same dose, allows a lesser dose to sufficient treat the tumor, and/or allows a greater dose with a lesser or no increase in risk to normal tissue. The dose plan may account for personalized tumors as each patient may have distinct tumors. Probability of dose application accuracy may also be used, so that a combined treatment probability allows efficient dose planning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Shipeng Yu, Glenn Fung, Steven Florian Petit, Hugo J. W. L. Aerts, Claudia Offermann, Michel Oellers, Philippe Lambin, Dirk de Ruysscher, Andreas Lubbertus Aloysius Johannes Dekker, Sriram Krishnan
  • DOSE DISTRIBUTION MODELING BY REGION FROM FUNCTIONAL IMAGING
    Publication number: 20090234626
    Abstract: Functional imaging information is used to determine a probability of residual disease given a treatment. The functional imaging information shows different characteristic levels for different regions of the tumor. The probability is output for planning use and/or used to automatically determine dose by region. Using the probability, the dose may be distributed by region so that some regions receive a greater dose than other regions. This distribution by region of dose more likely treats the tumor with a same dose, allows a lesser dose to sufficient treat the tumor, and/or allows a greater dose with a lesser or no increase in risk to normal tissue. The dose plan may account for personalized tumors as each patient may have distinct tumors. Probability of dose application accuracy may also be used, so that a combined treatment probability allows efficient dose planning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Shipeng Yu, Glenn Fung, Steven Florian Petit, Hugo J.W.L. Aerts, Claudia Offermann, Michel Oellers, Philippe Lambin, Dirk de Ruysscher, Andreas Lubbertus Aloysius Johannes Dekker, Sriram Krishnan