Setup for scout scans in a radiation therapy system
AssigneeVarian Medical Systems, Inc.
InventorsSevelin Stanchev, Stephen Thompson
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Abstract
A method for a radiation therapy system comprises: causing a graphical representation of a movable support couch of the X-ray imaging system to be displayed, wherein the graphical representation includes one or more reference markers that each correspond to a respective physical feature of the movable support couch; receiving a first user input that includes a first position indicator that corresponds to a first boundary of an X-ray imaging region; and generating an X-ray image of the X-ray imaging region, wherein a first edge of the X-ray image corresponds to the first boundary.
Claims21
A computer-implemented method for an X-ray imaging system, the method comprising:
- causing a graphical representation of a movable support couch of the X-ray imaging system to be displayed in a graphical user interface associated with the X-ray imaging system, wherein the graphical representation includes one or more reference markers that each correspond to a respective physical feature of the movable support couch;
- receiving a first user input that includes a first position indicator that corresponds to a first region of the graphical user interface, wherein an edge of the first region defines a first boundary of an X-ray imaging region;
- prior to generating an X-ray image of the X-ray imaging region, causing a graphical representation of an imaging isocenter's indicator to be displayed in conjunction with the graphical representation of the movable support couch in the graphical user interface;
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- generating the X-ray image of the X-ray imaging region, wherein a first edge of the X-ray image corresponds to the first boundary.
An X-ray imaging system comprising:
- a movable support couch;
- an imaging X-ray source configured to direct imaging X-rays to an X-ray imaging region proximate the movable support couch;
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- a processor configured to perform the steps of:
- causing a graphical representation of the movable support couch to be displayed in a graphical user interface associated with the X-ray imaging system, wherein the graphical representation includes one or more reference markers that each correspond to a respective physical feature of the movable support couch;
- receiving a first user input that includes a first position indicator that corresponds to a first region of the graphical user interface, wherein an edge of the first region defines a first boundary of the X-ray imaging region;
- prior to generating an X-ray image of the X-ray imaging region, causing a graphical representation of an imaging isocenter's indicator to be displayed in conjunction with the graphical representation of the movable support couch;
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- generating the X-ray image of the X-ray imaging region, wherein a first edge of the X-ray image corresponds to the first boundary.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.