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US 9,539,443 B2Granted
Safety methods and apparatus for low dose-rate radiation for medical and veterinary therapies
AssigneeMicrobeam Therapy, LLC
InventorsDaniel N. Slatkin, Fred Harden Geisler
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Abstract
Various embodiments relate to a microbeam radiation therapy (microbeam radiosurgery) system, including: a radiation beam source; a collimator with slits, wherein the collimator only passes a radiation beam from the radiation beam source through the slits; a filtering and limiting system; a source shutoff controller connected to the radiation beam source; and a detector configured to detect events requiring the shutdown of the radiation beam source.
Claims7
A microbeam radiation therapy system, comprising:
- a high-energy electro-magnetic X-ray or gamma ray radiation beam source;
- a collimator with slits, wherein the collimator only passes a radiation beam from the radiation beam source through the slits;
- a beam filtering and limiting system;
- a source shutoff controller connected to the radiation beam source;
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- a detector configured to detect events requiring shutdown of the radiation beam source;
- wherein the detector is a plurality of motion sensors configured to detect motion of the beam filtering and limiting system, collimator, and a subject treated by the microbeam radiation therapy system.
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