Patents by Inventor Hakan Nordstrom
Hakan Nordstrom 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).
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Publication number: 20230402151Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for optimization of radiotherapy treatments. Example operations for treatment planning include: obtaining first optimization problems for providing radiotherapy treatment to a human subject; performing dose optimization for delivery of the radiotherapy treatment to a treatment (target, low dose) area of the human subject, by performing at least a first pass and a second pass; and generating treatment plan data based on at least one of the multiple solutions provided by the second pass.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2022Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Joakim Sebastian da Silva, Marcus Lars Eric Hennix, Carl Axel Håkan Nordström
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Publication number: 20230264045Abstract: Dose-volume criteria may be equivalently expressed in terms of quantiles. This re-formulation of a dose-volume criteria allows incorporation of dose-volume criteria into a full optimization problem. Radiotherapy treatment techniques are described that may apply optimization-based formulation of quantiles to express dose-volume criterion as an inequality involving an optimization problem, which may improve DVH modeling, improve computational speed and accuracy of radiation treatment planning, and improve the delivery accuracy and efficacy of radiation doses to a patient undergoing radiotherapy treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Jens Olof Sjolund, Carl Axel Håkan Nordström
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Patent number: 11465000Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of radiation therapy and methods, software and systems for treatment planning. A target volume of a region of a patient to be treated during a treatment of a patient in a radiation therapy unit is obtained. A first isocenter location procedure is performed including inter alia evaluating potential isocenter locations along normal directions of the surface and respective isodistance surfaces in respective starting voxels in a direction inwards from the surface, and a second isocenter location procedure is performed including inter alia identifying a median axis of the target volume or center point of the target volume, placing isocenters at locations along the median axis, and placing isocenters in the target volume based on a distance to existing isocenters and to the target surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Inventors: Håkan Nordström, Joakim Wang Erlandsson, Fredrik Lundqvist, Marcus Hennix, Björn Somell
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Patent number: 11458331Abstract: A method for treatment planning for a radiation therapy system includes setting a number of objectives reflecting clinical criteria are set for the regions of interest and generating radiation dose profiles to be delivered to these regions of interest. A convex optimization function for optimizing the delivered radiation based on the objectives is provided and dose profiles for specific treatment configurations including beam shape settings for the radiation dose profiles are calculated using the convex optimization function. Treatment plans including determining the radiation dose profiles to be delivered during treatment based on the treatment configurations are created and an optimal treatment plan that satisfies the clinical criteria is selected.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: ELEKTA INSTRUMENT ABInventors: Jens Sjölund, Håkan Nordström
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Patent number: 11351396Abstract: Methods for dose or treatment planning for a radiotherapy system including a radiotherapy unit are provided. A spatial dose delivered can be changed by adjusting beam shape settings, and the delivered radiation is determined using an optimization problem that steers the delivered radiation according to objectives reflecting criteria for regions of interest including at least one of: targets to be treated during treatment of the patient, organs at risk and/or healthy tissue. The method includes determining an inner set of voxels and providing a first frame description for the inner set of voxels, where the first frame description reflects criteria for the inner set of voxels. Determining an outer set of voxels encompassing the target volume and the inner set of voxels and a frame description for the outer set of voxels is provided where each reflecting criteria for the outer set of voxels. The frame descriptions are then used in the optimization problem that steers the delivered radiation.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: ELEKTA INSTRUMENT ABInventors: Håkan Nordström, Stella Riad, Jens Sjölund
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Patent number: 11291857Abstract: In the field of radiotherapy, methods for dose or treatment planning for a radiation therapy system having a collimator, includes determining shots to be delivered during said treatment, each shot being associated with an isocenter and being modelled by a spatial dose volume distribution of radiation, the shape of said spatial distribution depending on the specific collimator setting and said selected dose level, including selecting isocenter positions within a target in a predetermined angle range; evaluating each isocenter based on predetermined conditions; selecting at least a specific collimator and sector setting for each isocenter based on the evaluation; calculating a dose for the selected isocenters; repeating the steps until at least one stopping criteria has been reached, wherein a final set of isocenters are provided; and using the final set of isocenters in treatment planning.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: ELEKTA LTD.Inventors: Stella Riad, Håkan Nordström, Emil Norell
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Publication number: 20210268314Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of radiation therapy and methods, software and systems for treatment planning. A target volume of a region of a patient to be treated during a treatment of a patient in a radiation therapy unit is obtained. A first Isocenter location procedure is performed including inter alia evaluating potential isocenter locations along normal directions of the surface and respective isodistance surfaces in respective starting voxel in a direction inwards from the surface, and a second isocenter location procedure is performed including inter alia identifying a median axis of the target volume or center point of the target volume, placing isocenters at locations along the median axis, placing isocenters in the target volume based on a distance to existing isocenters and to the target surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2020Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Elekta Instrument ABInventors: Håkan Nordström, Joakim Wang Erlandsson, Fredrik Lundqvist, Marcus Hennix, Björn Somell
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Patent number: 10888711Abstract: In the field of radiotherapy, methods for dose or treatment planning for a radiotherapy system are disclosed, wherein a spatial dose delivered can be adjusted and delivered radiation is determined using an optimization problem that steers the delivered radiation according to a frame description reflecting criteria for regions of interest that include at least one of targets to be treated during treatment of the patient, organs at risk and/or healthy tissue. The method includes estimating a voxel set receiving a higher dose than a predetermined threshold dose level, which voxel set includes voxels from at least one target volume. Further, a low dose voxel set is determined and a frame description for the voxels in the low dose voxel set is provided where voxels receiving a dose exceeding a predetermined threshold value is penalized such that the dose delivered to the low dose voxel set is suppressed. The frame description is then used in the optimization problem that steers the delivered radiation.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: ELEKTA INSTRUMENTS ABInventors: Håkan Nordström, Björn Somell, Stella Riad, Jens Sjölund
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Publication number: 20200330796Abstract: A method for treatment planning for a radiation therapy system includes setting a number of objectives reflecting clinical criteria are set for the regions of interest and generating radiation dose profiles to be delivered to these regions of interest. A convex optimization function for optimizing the delivered radiation based on the objectives is provided and dose profiles for specific treatment configurations including beam shape settings for the radiation dose profiles are calculated using the convex optimization function. Treatment plans including determining the radiation dose profiles to be delivered during treatment based on the treatment configurations are created and an optimal treatment plan that satisfies the clinical criteria is selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: ELEKTA INSTRUMENT ABInventors: Jens SJÖLUND, Håkan NORDSTRÖM
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Publication number: 20200282236Abstract: In the field of radiotherapy, methods for dose or treatment planning for a radiation therapy system having a collimator, includes determining shots to be delivered during said treatment, each shot being associated with an isocenter and being modelled by a spatial dose volume distribution of radiation, the shape of said spatial distribution depending on the specific collimator setting and said selected dose level, including selecting isocenter positions within a target in a predetermined angle range; evaluating each isocenter based on predetermined conditions; selecting at least a specific collimator and sector setting for each isocenter based on the evaluation; calculating a dose for the selected isocenters; repeating the steps until at least one stopping criteria has been reached, wherein a final set of isocenters are provided; and using the final set of isocenters in treatment planning.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Applicant: ELEKTA LTD.Inventors: Stella Riad, Håkan Nordström, Emil Norell
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Patent number: 10744343Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of radiation therapy. In particular, the present invention relates to methods for treatment planning for a radiation therapy system. The method includes setting a number of objectives reflecting clinical criteria are set for the regions of interest and generating radiation dose profiles to be delivered to these regions of interest. A convex optimization function for optimizing the delivered radiation based on the objectives is provided and dose profiles for specific treatment configurations including beam shape settings for the radiation dose profiles are calculated using the convex optimization function. Treatment plans including determining the radiation dose profiles to be delivered during treatment based on the treatment configurations are created and an optimal treatment plan that satisfies the clinical criteria is selected.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: ELEKTA INSTRUMENT ABInventors: Jens Sjölund, Håkan Nordström
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Patent number: 10497113Abstract: Embodiments disclose a method performed by at least one processor for processing a plurality of x-ray projection images of a subject, the method comprising a plurality of operations including reconstructing the projection images to yield a volume reconstruction; segmenting the reconstructed volume by assigning a material type to each voxel; estimating a first set of scatter images corresponding to a subset of the projection images by calculating probabilistic predictions of interactions of x-rays with the subject and applying a low pass spatial filter to the scatter images; estimating a second set of scatter images corresponding to projection images not included in the subset, based on the first set of scatter images; and subtracting, for each projection image, the corresponding scatter image to yield a corrected projection image.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignees: Elekta AB (publ), University Health NetworkInventors: Marcus Hennix, Hakan Nordstrom, Markus Eriksson, Jonas Adler, David Jaffray, Gregory Bootsma, Frank Verhaegen, Bjorn Nutti
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Publication number: 20190255354Abstract: In the field of radiotherapy, methods for dose or treatment planning for a radiotherapy system including a radiotherapy unit are described. A spatial dose delivered can be changed by adjusting beam shape settings, wherein delivered radiation is determined using an optimization problem that steers the delivered radiation according to objectives reflecting criteria for regions of interest including at least one of: targets to be treated during treatment of the patient, organs at risk and/or healthy tissue. The method includes determining an inner set of voxels and providing a first frame description for the inner set of voxels, where the first frame description reflects criteria for the inner set of voxels. Determining an outer set of voxels encompassing the target volume and the inner set of voxels and a frame description for the outer set of voxels is provided where each reflecting criteria for the outer set of voxels.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: ELEKTA LTD.Inventors: Håkan Nordström, Stella Riad, Jens Sjölund
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Publication number: 20190255355Abstract: In the field of radiotherapy, methods for dose or treatment planning for a radiotherapy system are disclosed, wherein a spatial dose delivered can be adjusted and delivered radiation is determined using an optimization problem that steers the delivered radiation according to a frame description reflecting criteria for regions of interest that include at least one of targets to be treated during treatment of the patient, organs at risk and/or healthy tissue. The method includes estimating a voxel set receiving a higher dose than a predetermined threshold dose level, which voxel set includes voxels from at least one target volume. Further, a low dose voxel set is determined and a frame description for the voxels in the low dose voxel set is provided where voxels receiving a dose exceeding a predetermined threshold value is penalized such that the dose delivered to the low dose voxel set is suppressed. The frame description is then used in the optimization problem that steers the delivered radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: ELEKTA LTD.Inventors: Håkan Nordström, Björn Somell, Stella Riad, Jens Sjölund
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Publication number: 20180311509Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of radiation therapy. In particular, the present invention relates to methods for treatment planning for a radiation therapy system. The method includes setting a number of objectives reflecting clinical criteria are set for the regions of interest and generating radiation dose profiles to be delivered to these regions of interest. A convex optimization function for optimizing the delivered radiation based on the objectives is provided and dose profiles for specific treatment configurations including beam shape settings for the radiation dose profiles are calculated using the convex optimization function. Treatment plans including determining the radiation dose profiles to be delivered during treatment based on the treatment configurations are created and an optimal treatment plan that satisfies the clinical criteria is selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2017Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: ELEKTA LTD.Inventors: Jens SJÖLUND, Håkan NORDSTRÖM
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Publication number: 20160314584Abstract: Embodiments disclose a method performed by at least one processor for processing a plurality of x-ray projection images of a subject, the method comprising a plurality of operations including reconstructing the projection images to yield a volume reconstruction; segmenting the reconstructed volume by assigning a material type to each voxel; estimating a first set of scatter images corresponding to a subset of the projection images by calculating probabilistic predictions of interactions of x-rays with the subject and applying a low pass spatial filter to the scatter images; estimating a second set of scatter images corresponding to projection images not included in the subset, based on the first set of scatter images; and subtracting, for each projection image, the corresponding scatter image to yield a corrected projection image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicants: Elekta AB (publ), University Health NetworkInventors: Marcus HENNIX, Hakan NORDSTROM, Markus Eriksson, Jonas ADLER, David JAFFRAY, Gregory BOOTSMA, Frank VERHAEGEN, Bjorn NUTTI
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Patent number: 9358404Abstract: A method and a dose planning module for planning a treatment session of a patient by means of a radiation therapy system includes a radiation therapy unit having a fixed radiation focus point. The method includes obtaining a target volume of a region of a patient to be treated during a treatment of a patient in a radiation therapy unit, the target volume being modeled as a three-dimensional voxel representation; selecting an isodose level for the planned treatment; determining shots to be delivered during the treatment, each shot being modeled by a spatial dose volume distribution of radiation represented by a three-dimensional voxel representation, the shape of the spatial distribution depending on the specific collimator setting and the selected isodose level; and selecting shots in a decreasing volume order for the dose planning.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: ELEKTA AB (PUBL)Inventors: Karl Danielsson, Håkan Nordström, Björn Somell, Pär Lidberg
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Patent number: 8938047Abstract: A method for planning a treatment session of a patient and optimizing the treatment time for a treatment using a radiation therapy system includes a radiation therapy unit having a fixed radiation focus point. During an optimization of a treatment plan for a patient, a set of shots to be delivered to a plurality of isocenter positions within a target volume of a patient during a treatment session are determined and a beam-on time for each respective sector and state for each isocenter during which radiation is to be delivered are determined based on the treatment plan. For each isocenter position, sectors and states of respective sector are grouped in accordance predetermined rules with respect to beam-on times for respective state of the sectors, wherein sectors and respective states are aggregated for simultaneous delivery of radiation during a predetermined period of time.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Elekta AB (Publ)Inventors: Håkan Nordström, Jonas Johansson
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Publication number: 20130178688Abstract: A method for planning a treatment session of a patient and optimizing the treatment time for a treatment using a radiation therapy system includes a radiation therapy unit having a fixed radiation focus point. During an optimization of a treatment plan for a patient, a set of shots to be delivered to a plurality of isocenter positions within a target volume of a patient during a treatment session are determined and a beam-on time for each respective sector and state for each isocenter during which radiation is to be delivered are determined based on the treatment plan. For each isocenter position, sectors and states of respective sector are grouped in accordance predetermined rules with respect to beam-on times for respective state of the sectors, wherein sectors and respective states are aggregated for simultaneous delivery of radiation during a predetermined period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: ELEKTA AB (PUBL)Inventors: Håkan Nordström, Jonas Johansson
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Patent number: 8412160Abstract: The technology described relates to management of data packets and buffers comprising segments of data packets in a mobile communication system. Information associated with data packet segments is analyzed by a Base Station System (BSS) housing a data buffer. Based on this information analysis, the BSS can identify those segments in the buffer that constitute a complete data packet. Once identified, the segments can be discarded from the buffer. The information can include size information, whereby the analysis comprises pairwise comparing the size of a current segment with the size of a next consecutive segment. This size comparison enables identification of a first segment and a last segment of the complete data packet. The information could also, or alternatively, include a notification provided in the header of the segment. This notification identifies the associated segment as the first or last segment of the data packet or an intermediate segment.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Ingo Meirick, Håkan Nordström, Erik Westerberg, Paul Schliwa-Bertling, Hannes Ekström