Patents by Inventor Scott Patrick ROBERTSON

Scott Patrick ROBERTSON 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).

  • Method and apparatus for determining treatment region and mitigating radiation toxicity
    Patent number: 9925393
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining a contour of a treatment region in a patient includes a computer processor to receive input regarding a contour of at least one organ-at-risk (OAR) adjacent to the treatment region; receive input regarding an initial contour of the treatment region; predict a radiation toxicity to the at least one OAR based on the contour of the at least one OAR, the initial contour of the treatment region, and a radiation treatment regimen; determine whether the predicted radiation toxicity exceeds a threshold; and determine a contour of the treatment region by iteratively modifying the initial contour of the treatment region, and any subsequent modified contours of the treatment region, until a stopping condition is satisfied. The stopping condition can be a preselected number of iterations or that the predicted radiation toxicity using the contour in place of the initial contour is first calculated is below said threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Minoru Nakatsugawa, John Wayne Haller, Robert Andrew Davey, Rachel-Louise Kvertus Koktava, Kosuke Sakaue, Todd McNutt, Harry Quon, Scott Patrick Robertson, Zhi Cheng
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING TREATMENT REGION AND MITIGATING RADIATION TOXICITY
    Publication number: 20170259083
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining a contour of a treatment region in a patient includes a computer processor to receive input regarding a contour of at least one organ-at-risk (OAR) adjacent to the treatment region; receive input regarding an initial contour of the treatment region; predict a radiation toxicity to the at least one OAR based on the contour of the at least one OAR, the initial contour of the treatment region, and a radiation treatment regimen; determine whether the predicted radiation toxicity exceeds a threshold; and determine a contour of the treatment region by iteratively modifying the initial contour of the treatment region, and any subsequent modified contours of the treatment region, until a stopping condition is satisfied. The stopping condition can be a preselected number of iterations or that the predicted radiation toxicity using the contour in place of the initial contour is first calculated is below said threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Minoru NAKATSUGAWA, John Wayne HALLER, Robert Andrew DAVEY, Rachel-Louise Kvertus KOKTAVA, Kosuke SAKAUE, Todd MCNUTT, Harry QUON, Scott Patrick ROBERTSON, Zhi CHENG