Abstract: These teachings serve to facilitate radiating a treatment target in a patient during a radiation treatment session with a radiation treatment platform having a moving source of radiation and using an optimized radiation treatment plan. These teachings in particular provide for configuring the radiation treatment platform in a half-fan trajectory arrangement. These teachings then provide for beginning the radiation treatment session with the source of radiation in a first location and an isocenter for the treatment target in a first position. Then, during the radiation treatment session, these teachings provide for moving the source of radiation from that first location in synchronization with moving the isocenter from the aforementioned first position.

Abstract: A control circuit access information corresponding to patient geometry information for a particular patient. The control circuit then provides that information, along with at least one variable that is unrelated to that particular patient, as input to a field geometry generator. The field geometry generator can comprise a neural network trained in a conditional generative adversarial networks (GAN) framework as a function of previously-developed field geometry solutions for a plurality of different patients. In such a case the information corresponding to the patient geometry information for the particular patient can serve as conditional input to the neural network. So configured, the control circuit can then process the foregoing input using the field geometry generator to thereby generate the therapeutic radiation delivery field geometry for the particular patient.

Abstract: A control circuit accesses patient image content as well as field geometry information regarding a particular radiation treatment platform. The control circuit then generates a predicted three-dimensional dose map for the radiation treatment plan as a function of both the patient image content and the field geometry information.

Abstract: A relationship assistant is used in conjunction with an electronic device in order to monitor a person's communications with others. The relationship assistant gathers information from a variety of applications in order to determine whether there are particular contacts with whom the user has not recently communicated. The relationship assistant can therefore inform the user of relationships that may be languishing, as well as provide a user with a listing of the number, frequency and types of communications that have occurred.

Abstract: A method by which an email synchronization server (11) communicates to an email synchronization client (12) that an email being provided to the client (12) by the server (11) during a synchronization session is truncated, based on including in a description of the email a truncated element (21) and also, as appropriate, a body element (22) and/or one or more attach elements (23).