Patents by Inventor Xiaoning Pan

Xiaoning Pan 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).

  • Automated treatment planning for radiation therapy
    Patent number: 8986186
    Abstract: This patent generally relates to developing treatment plans for use in external beam radiation therapy, and more particularly to a method, a system and a computer readable media that contains programming for the development of external beam radiation therapy treatment plans. Embodiments of the invention include (1) automatically setting beam angles based on a beam angle automation algorithm, (2) judiciously designing planning structures and (3) automatically adjusting the objectives of the objective function based on a parameter automation algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Xiaodong Zhang, Xiaoning Pan, Yupeng Li, Xiaoqiang Li, Radhe Mohan
  • AUTOMATED TREATMENT PLANNING FOR RADIATION THERAPY
    Publication number: 20120136194
    Abstract: This patent generally relates to developing treatment plans for use in external beam radiation therapy, and more particularly to a method, a system and a computer readable media that contains programming for the development of external beam radiation therapy treatment plans. Embodiments of the invention include (1) automatically setting beam angles based on a beam angle automation algorithm, (2) judiciously designing planning structures and (3) automatically adjusting the objectives of the objective function based on a parameter automation algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventors: Xiaodong Zhang, Xiaoning Pan, Yupeng Li, Xiaoqiang Li, Radhe Mohan