Patents by Inventor John Morton McGhee

John Morton McGhee 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).

  • Publication number: 20230338748
    Abstract: A method of beam angle optimization for an IMRT radiotherapy treatment includes providing a patient model having one or more regions of interest (ROIs), defining a delivery coordinate space (DCS), for each ROI, solving an adjoint transport to obtain an adjoint solution field from the ROI, for each vertex in the DCS, evaluating an adjoint photon fluence by performing ray tracing of the adjoint solution field, evaluating a dose of the ROI using the adjoint photon fluence, for each vertex in the DCS, evaluating a respective beam's eye view (BEV) score of each pixel of a BEV plane using the doses of the one or more ROIs, determining one or more BEV regions in the BEV plane based on the BEV scores, determining a BEV region connectivity manifold based on the BEV regions, and determining a set of IMRT fields based on the BEV region connectivity manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Santtu Ollila, Todd Arlin Wareing, John Morton McGhee, Douglas Allen Barnett, JR., Alexander Enrique Maslowski
  • Patent number: 11717701
    Abstract: A method of beam angle optimization for an IMRT radiotherapy treatment includes providing a patient model having one or more regions of interest (ROIs), defining a delivery coordinate space (DCS), for each ROI, solving an adjoint transport to obtain an adjoint solution field from the ROI, for each vertex in the DCS, evaluating an adjoint photon fluence by performing ray tracing of the adjoint solution field, evaluating a dose of the ROI using the adjoint photon fluence, for each vertex in the DCS, evaluating a respective beam's eye view (BEV) score of each pixel of a BEV plane using the doses of the one or more ROIs, determining one or more BEV regions in the BEV plane based on the BEV scores, determining a BEV region connectivity manifold based on the BEV regions, and determining a set of IMRT fields based on the BEV region connectivity manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG, VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Santtu Ollila, Todd Arlin Wareing, John Morton McGhee, Douglas Allen Barnett, Jr., Alexander Enrique Maslowski
  • Publication number: 20220339468
    Abstract: A method of trajectory optimization for radiotherapy treatment includes providing a patient model having one or more regions of interest (ROIs), defining a delivery coordinate space (DCS), for each ROI, solving an adjoint transport to obtain an adjoint solution field from the ROI, for each vertex in the DCS, evaluating an adjoint photon fluence by performing ray tracing of the adjoint solution field, evaluating a dose of the ROI using the adjoint photon fluence, for each vertex in the DCS, evaluating a respective beam's eye view (BEV) score of each pixel of a BEV plane using the doses of the one or more ROIs, determining one or more BEV regions in the BEV plane based on the BEV scores, determining a BEV region connectivity manifold based on the BEV regions, and determining one or more optimal treatment trajectories based on the BEV region connectivity manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Santtu Ollila, Todd Arlin Wareing, John Morton McGhee, Douglas Allen Barnett, JR., Alexander Enrique Maslowski
  • Patent number: 11400313
    Abstract: A method of trajectory optimization for radiotherapy treatment includes providing a patient model having one or more regions of interest (ROIs), defining a delivery coordinate space (DCS), for each ROI, solving an adjoint transport to obtain an adjoint solution field from the ROI, for each vertex in the DCS, evaluating an adjoint photon fluence by performing ray tracing of the adjoint solution field, evaluating a dose of the ROI using the adjoint photon fluence, for each vertex in the DCS, evaluating a respective beam's eye view (BEV) score of each pixel of a BEV plane using the doses of the one or more ROIs, determining one or more BEV regions in the BEV plane based on the BEV scores, determining a BEV region connectivity manifold based on the BEV regions, and determining one or more optimal treatment trajectories based on the BEV region connectivity manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC., VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Santtu Ollila, Todd Arlin Wareing, John Morton McGhee, Douglas Allen Barnett, Jr., Alexander Enrique Maslowski
  • Publication number: 20200101322
    Abstract: A method of trajectory optimization for radiotherapy treatment includes providing a patient model having one or more regions of interest (ROIs), defining a delivery coordinate space (DCS), for each ROI, solving an adjoint transport to obtain an adjoint solution field from the ROI, for each vertex in the DCS, evaluating an adjoint photon fluence by performing ray tracing of the adjoint solution field, evaluating a dose of the ROI using the adjoint photon fluence, for each vertex in the DCS, evaluating a respective beam's eye view (BEV) score of each pixel of a BEV plane using the doses of the one or more ROIs, determining one or more BEV regions in the BEV plane based on the BEV scores, determining a BEV region connectivity manifold based on the BEV regions, and determining one or more optimal treatment trajectories based on the BEV region connectivity manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicants: Varian Medical Systems International AG, Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Santtu Ollila, Todd Arlin Wareing, John Morton McGhee, Douglas Allen Barnett, JR., Alexander Enrique Maslowski
  • Publication number: 20200101325
    Abstract: A method of beam angle optimization for an IMRT radiotherapy treatment includes providing a patient model having one or more regions of interest (ROIs), defining a delivery coordinate space (DCS), for each ROI, solving an adjoint transport to obtain an adjoint solution field from the ROI, for each vertex in the DCS, evaluating an adjoint photon fluence by performing ray tracing of the adjoint solution field, evaluating a dose of the ROI using the adjoint photon fluence, for each vertex in the DCS, evaluating a respective beam's eye view (BEV) score of each pixel of a BEV plane using the doses of the one or more ROIs, determining one or more BEV regions in the BEV plane based on the BEV scores, determining a BEV region connectivity manifold based on the BEV regions, and determining a set of IMRT fields based on the BEV region connectivity manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicants: Varian Medical Systems International AG, Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Santtu Ollila, Todd Arlin Wareing, John Morton McGhee, Douglas Allen Barnett, JR., Alexander Enrique Maslowski
  • Publication number: 20090063110
    Abstract: Brachytherapy dose attributable to a brachytherapy source is computed for portions of a patient treatment volume corresponding to a pathological target volume and critical structures. Patient image data is accessed to derive a material voxel array. Multiple computation grids are derived. Primary particle fluence is computed for each first grid element using a ray tracing process from which a primary dose and a first scattered particle source are derived. Scattered particle fluence of the first scattered particle source is derived for each second grid element from which a secondary dose is derived. Each first grid element corresponds to a plurality of second grid elements. Primary dose and scattered dose combine to provide total dose at specific volumes. Brachytherapy source models and non-anatomical body surface models may be applied as applicable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: Transpire,Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Alexander Failla, Douglas Allen Barnett, John Morton McGhee, Todd Arlin Wareing