Patents by Inventor Sami Pekka Siljamaki
Sami Pekka Siljamaki 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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Patent number: 8913717Abstract: Systems and methods for developing a treatment plan for irradiating a treatment volume within a patient are disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, control points used to calculate a dose of radiation delivered to the treatment volume may be combined to result in a smaller number of control points. The smaller number of control points may allow more efficient calculation of dose distributions resulting in a treatment plan that can be delivered to the patient earlier or may allow additional iterations of treatment plan optimization resulting in a more accurate dose distribution being delivered to the patient.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2013Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Varian Medical Systems International AGInventors: Sami Pekka Siljamaki, Janne Ilmari Nord, Laura Kristiina Korhonen
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Publication number: 20140044236Abstract: Systems and methods for developing a treatment plan for irradiating a treatment volume within a patient are disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, control points used to calculate a dose of radiation delivered to the treatment volume may be combined to result in a smaller number of control points. The smaller number of control points may allow more efficient calculation of dose distributions resulting in a treatment plan that can be delivered to the patient earlier or may allow additional iterations of treatment plan optimization resulting in a more accurate dose distribution being delivered to the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Inventors: Sami Pekka Siljamäki, Janne IImari Nord, Laura Kristina Korhonen
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Patent number: 8483357Abstract: Systems and methods for developing a treatment plan for irradiating a treatment volume within a patient are disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, control points used to calculate a dose of radiation delivered to the treatment volume may be combined to result in a smaller number of control points. The smaller number of control points may allow more efficient calculation of dose distributions resulting in a treatment plan that can be delivered to the patient earlier or may allow additional iterations of treatment plan optimization resulting in a more accurate dose distribution being delivered to the patient.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2011Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Varian Medical Systems International AGInventors: Sami Pekka Siljamaki, Janne Ilmari Nord, Laura Kristiina Korhonen
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Patent number: 8160203Abstract: A stochastic patient movement model and a dosage delivery plan are used to determine probabilities of dosages received by a target volume during a radiation treatment. The stochastic patient movement model is created by identifying possible sequences of patient positions during the treatment with probabilities specified for each. The dosage delivery plan specifies dosage levels and radiation locations over time. Accumulated dosages are calculated for each sequence of patient positions and the dosage delivery plan. The specified probability for each sequence is then correlated to the accumulated dosage for that sequence.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2007Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Varian Medical Systems International AGInventors: Janne Ilmari Nord, Sami Pekka Siljamäki
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Publication number: 20120051516Abstract: Systems and methods for developing a treatment plan for irradiating a treatment volume within a patient are disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, control points used to calculate a dose of radiation delivered to the treatment volume may be combined to result in a smaller number of control points. The smaller number of control points may allow more efficient calculation of dose distributions resulting in a treatment plan that can be delivered to the patient earlier or may allow additional iterations of treatment plan optimization resulting in a more accurate dose distribution being delivered to the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: Varian Medical Systems International AGInventors: Sami Pekka Siljamaki, Janne Ilmari Nord, Laura Kristiina Korhonen
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Patent number: 8009804Abstract: Systems and methods for developing a treatment plan for irradiating a treatment volume within a patient are disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, control points used to calculate a dose of radiation delivered to the treatment volume may be combined to result in a smaller number of control points. The smaller number of control points may allow more efficient calculation of dose distributions resulting in a treatment plan that can be delivered to the patient earlier or may allow additional iterations of treatment plan optimization resulting in a more accurate dose distribution being delivered to the patient.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2009Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Varian Medical Systems International AGInventors: Sami Pekka Siljamaki, Janne Ilmari Nord, Laura Kristiina Korhonen
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Publication number: 20110091014Abstract: Systems and methods for developing a treatment plan for irradiating a treatment volume within a patient are disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, control points used to calculate a dose of radiation delivered to the treatment volume may be combined to result in a smaller number of control points. The smaller number of control points may allow more efficient calculation of dose distributions resulting in a treatment plan that can be delivered to the patient earlier or may allow additional iterations of treatment plan optimization resulting in a more accurate dose distribution being delivered to the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2009Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: Varian Medical Systems International AGInventors: Sami Pekka Siljamaki, Janne Ilmari Nord, Laura Kristiina Korhonen
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Patent number: 7796731Abstract: A method of providing intensity modulated radiation therapy to a moving target is disclosed. The target moves periodically along a trajectory that is projected onto a multi-leaf collimator (MLC) plane. The MLC plane is divided into thin slices parallel to the movement of the target. The present invention optimizes the leaf sequence such that, within each slice, if a point receives radiation, all other points in that slice that receive the same amount or more fluence are also receiving radiation at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2008Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Varian Medical Systems International AGInventors: Janne Ilmari Nord, Sami Pekka Siljamaki, Tuomas Erik Torsti
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Publication number: 20100046713Abstract: A method of providing intensity modulated radiation therapy to a moving target is disclosed. The target moves periodically along a trajectory that is projected onto a multi-leaf collimator (MLC) plane. The MLC plane is divided into thin slices parallel to the movement of the target. The present invention optimizes the leaf sequence such that, within each slice, if a point receives radiation, all other points in that slice that receive the same amount or more fluence are also receiving radiation at the same time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2008Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: Varian Medical Systems International AGInventors: Janne Ilmari Nord, Sami Pekka Siljamaki, Tuomas Erik Torsti
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Patent number: 7668291Abstract: Systems and methods of controlling the leaves of an aperture in radiation treatment are disclosed. In some embodiments, these systems and methods allow the delivery of different radiation fluences to different parts of a treatment volume in a single rotation of the aperture around the treatment volume. In some embodiments, different radiation fluences are achieved by radiating different parts of the treatment volume from opposing positions of the aperture around the treatment volume. In some embodiments, different radiation fluences are achieved by assigning different leaf pairs to radiate different parts of the treatment volume.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2007Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Varian Medical Systems International AGInventors: Janne Ilmari Nord, Sami Pekka Siljamäki, Katja Marika Pesola
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Patent number: 7609811Abstract: The present invention provides an intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) method for treating a target region that minimizes the tongue and groove effect. By minimizing that effect, striping in the final delivered fluence is reduced, which improves the overall quality of the radiation delivery. In the method, compensating functions Ci(x) are added to leaf coordinates ai(x) and bi(x) for all of the leaf pairs i in a leaf sequence algorithm, where Ci(x) is chosen to match the mechanical limitations of the MLC and to minimize non-weighted or weighted sums of the tongue and groove effects, where the weighting is time-dependent, position-dependent, or time- and position-dependent, or to minimize the total treatment time, changes to the original MLC sequence, or the tongue and groove effect distribution variance in spatial or temporal coordinates.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Varian Medical Systems International AGInventors: Sami Pekka Siljamaki, Katja Marika Pesola
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Publication number: 20090082608Abstract: A stochastic patient movement model and a dosage delivery plan are used to determine probabilities of dosages received by a target volume during a radiation treatment. The stochastic patient movement model is created by identifying possible sequences of patient positions during the treatment with probabilities specified for each. The dosage delivery plan specifies dosage levels and radiation locations over time. Accumulated dosages are calculated for each sequence of patient positions and the dosage delivery plan. The specified probability for each sequence is then correlated to the accumulated dosage for that sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2007Publication date: March 26, 2009Inventors: Janne Ilmari Nord, Sami Pekka Siljamaki
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Publication number: 20080285719Abstract: Systems and methods of controlling the leaves of an aperture in radiation treatment are disclosed. In some embodiments, these systems and methods allow the delivery of different radiation fluences to different parts of a treatment volume in a single rotation of the aperture around the treatment volume. In some embodiments, different radiation fluences are achieved by radiating different parts of the treatment volume from opposing positions of the aperture around the treatment volume. In some embodiments, different radiation fluences are achieved by assigning different leaf pairs to radiate different parts of the treatment volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2007Publication date: November 20, 2008Inventors: Janne Ilmari Nord, Sami Pekka Siljamaki, Katja Marika Pesola