Patents by Inventor Yoon Jong KIM

Yoon Jong KIM 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: 20090220046
    Abstract: Provided is a collimator device for radiotherapy including: a body including a first through unit and disposed on a path of high energy radiation which in use is irradiated toward a patient's treatment part; a frame including a through hole corresponding to the first through unit and slidably installed in the body; a plurality of multi-leaf collimators (MLCs) slidably installed in the through hole and including radiation shields; a servo motor coupled to the body and the frame in a power manner so as to slidingly move the frame with respect to the body; and a motor controller externally receiving position displacement data regarding a motion of the patient's treatment part due to a patient's breathing and generating a signal for controlling the driving of the servo motor so that the MLCs follow the patient's treatment part and continuously apply radiation to the patient's treatment part based on the position displacement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL & MEDICAL SCIENCES
    Inventors: Young Hoon JI, Dong Han LEE, Mon Sik CHOI, Seung Woo PARK, Yoon Jong KIM