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US 7,343,030 B2Granted
Dynamic tumor treatment system
AssigneeImQuant, Inc.
InventorTimothy E. Sawyer
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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 and output to therapeutic systems.
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A method for analyzing an image of a tumor, the steps comprising:
- a) selecting a threshold value which is indicative of a parameter of the tumor;
- b) comparing the selected threshold value with values derived from image voxel values;
- c) producing an isonumeric image that depicts a contour of the tumor by selling voxels therein to indicate where in the image the derived image voxel values are substantially the same as the threshold value;
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- d) analyzing the isonumeric image.
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A dynamic tumor diagnostic and treatment system which comprises:
- means for importing an image of a tumor;
- means for producing from the imported image an isonumeric image which depicts a contour indicative of locations in the imported image having a selected threshold value of a tumor parameter;
- a case study storage for storing isonumeric images;
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- means for analyzing the tumor depicted in the imported image by comparing the isonumeric image produced from the imported image with previously produced isonumeric images stored in the case study storage.
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A dynamic tumor diagnostic and treatment system which comprises:
- means for importing an image of a tumor;
- means for calculating values of parameters that measure the tumor;
- a case study storage for storing the calculated parameters;
- means for analyzing the tumor depicted in the imported image by calculating changes that have occurred in tumor parameters based on parameters previously stored in the case study storage;
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- means for indicating further treatment of the tumor based on a calculated change.
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