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US 2006/0133573 A1Published application
Radiosurgery x-ray system with collision avoidance subsystem
AssigneeAccuray Incorporated
InventorsPhillip Wong, James Wang, Sohail Sayeh
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Abstract
A method for preventing an emission head or arm assembly from entering an exclusion zone or for preventing a collision between an object and the emission head and/or arm assembly. The method may include modeling a treatment room using a computer-aided design (CAD) tool, and calculating an exclusion zone for a radiosurgery system in the treatment room using the modeled treatment room.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- modeling a treatment room using a computer-aided design (CAD) tool;
- and
- calculating an exclusion zone for a radiosurgery system in the treatment room using the modeled treatment room.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a controller to model a treatment room using a computer-aided design (CAD) tool, wherein the controller is configured to calculate an exclusion zone for a radiosurgery system in the treatment room using the modeled treatment room.
An apparatus, comprising:
- means for modeling a treatment room;
- and
- means for calculating an exclusion zone for an x-ray source in the treatment room using the modeled treatment room.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.