Patents by Inventor Edward Thomas Bender

Edward Thomas Bender 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).

  • System and method for improved radiosurgery collimation
    Patent number: 8971491
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for radiation system collimation and design. A plurality of channel waveguide assemblies are provided to be operatively associated with respective beam collimators having varying longitudinal bore diameters. The plurality of channel waveguide assemblies includes a plurality of guides and concentric spacers. The plurality of guides and concentric spacers include varying inner diameters that are configured to be securably nested together by decreasing inner diameters and secured within the longitudinal bores of the respective beam collimators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventor: Edward Thomas Bender
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED RADIOSURGERY COLLIMATION
    Publication number: 20140270075
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for radiation system collimation and design. A plurality of channel waveguide assemblies are provided to be operatively associated with respective beam collimators having varying longitudinal bore diameters. The plurality of channel waveguide assemblies includes a plurality of guides and concentric spacers. The plurality of guides and concentric spacers include varying inner diameters that are configured to be securably nested together by decreasing inner diameters and secured within the longitudinal bores of the respective beam collimators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Edward Thomas Bender
  • Reduction of transitivity errors in radiotherapy image registration
    Patent number: 8526692
    Abstract: Deformation maps (e.g. deformation vector fields) used for correcting image-type data used in the treatment of patients in radiotherapy may be processed to eliminate inverse inconsistency and transitivity type errors which produce different results depending on the order or path of the calculation of deformation. The correction permits registration of a treatment plan with the changing patient image and accumulation of dose to a common reference frame without transformation dependent artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Wolfgang Axel Tomé, Edward Thomas Bender, Nicholas Gordon Lance Hardcastle
  • Reduction of Transitivity Errors in Radiotherapy Image Registration
    Publication number: 20130004034
    Abstract: Deformation maps (e.g. deformation vector fields) used for correcting image-type data used in the treatment of patients in radiotherapy may be processed to eliminate inverse inconsistency and transitivity type errors which produce different results depending on the order or path of the calculation of deformation. The correction permits registration of a treatment plan with the changing patient image and accumulation of dose to a common reference frame without transformation dependent artifacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Wolfgang Axel Tomé, Edward Thomas Bender, Nicholas Gordon Lance Hardcastle