US Patent:
20130245354, Sep 19, 2013
Inventors:
Serguei A. Kriminski - Poughkeepsie NY, US
Ivan Lysiuk - Daly City CA, US
International Classification:
A61N 5/00
Abstract:
Prior to delivery of the radiation treatment, the actual treatment parameters need to be verified against the parameters in a treatment planning system. This verification (timeout) is performed manually by radiation technologist(s) as shown in FIG. We propose using an automatic mechanism to perform the timeout. As is shown in FIG. one of the proposed embodiments directly reads the output to the human interface system from the controller of treatment device. Then, the embodiment extracts the necessary information from the output and compares it with the data extracted (in advance) from the treatment planning system. Different embodiments of the automatic timeout are also presented.