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US 8,160,205 B2Granted
Robotic arm for patient positioning assembly
AssigneeAccuray Incorporated
InventorsMichael J. Saracen, Aaron W. Carrano, Toby D. Henderson
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Abstract
A robotic patient positioning assembly including a patient treatment couch, and a robotic arm coupled to the patient treatment couch. The robotic arm is configured to move the patient treatment couch along five rotational degrees of freedom and one substantially vertical, linear degree of freedom.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a patient treatment couch;
- a robotic arm coupled to the patient treatment couch, the robotic arm configured to move using five rotational degrees of freedom and one substantially vertical, linear degree of freedom;
- a controller coupled to the robotic arm;
- an imaging system coupled to the controller to generate a plurality of images of a patient;
- and
- a therapeutic radiation treatment system comprising a therapeutic radiation source, the therapeutic radiation treatment system configured to position the therapeutic radiation source at a plurality of locations of a workspace.
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A method comprising:
- providing a patient treatment couch coupled to a first robotic arm;
- providing a robot-based linear accelerator system coupled to a second robotic arm;
- moving the patient treatment couch using five rotational degrees of freedom and one substantially vertical, linear degree of freedom of the first robotic arm;
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- moving the robot-based linear accelerator system among different locations of a workspace.
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