Stereotactic System And Method For Defining A Tumor Treatment Region
US Patent:
8055323, Nov 8, 2011
Filed:
Aug 3, 2004
Appl. No.:
10/910483
Inventors:
Timothy E. Sawyer - Boise ID, US
Assignee:
ImQuant, Inc. - Boise ID
International Classification:
A61B 5/05
US Classification:
600407, 606130
Abstract:
An instrument is used to mark locations in tissue that define the boundary of a three-dimensional treatment zone. The position of the instrument is recorded by a tracking system and a treatment zone image is produced which depicts the treatment zone along with patient reference points also marked by the instrument. The treatment zone image is exported to a radiation treatment system which uses the patient reference points to align the treatment zone image with the patient and uses the treatment zone image to aim the radiation.
A workstation imports medical images that depict a tumor and provides tools that enable a physician to see the results of prior therapies, plan future therapies, predict the outcome of future therapies and control future therapies. The workstation processes the imported images to produce isonumeric images of the tumor that can be analyzed and output to therapeutic systems.
Timothy E. Sawyer - Boise ID, US Thomas Edwin Payne - Bothell WA, US
Assignee:
ImQuant LLC - Boise ID
International Classification:
G06K 9/00
US Classification:
382128, 382131, 382199, 378 65, 600410
Abstract:
A workstation imports medical images that depict a tumor and provides tools that enable a physician to see the results of prior therapies, plan future therapies, predict the outcome of future therapies and control future therapies. The workstation processes the imported images to produce isonumeric images of the tumor that can be analyzed by an expert system that provides diagnostic and outcome information as well as suggestions for further testing and therapy.