SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOTION ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION FOR RADIATION THERAPY DELIVERY
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1. A method of delivering a radiation therapy treatment, the method comprising:
- generating a treatment plan for a patient, the treatment plan specifying a beam intensity;
positioning the patient to receive radiation;
optimizing at least a portion of the treatment plan in substantially real-time to incorporate changes to one of the patient and a machine configuration; and
delivering at least a portion of the optimized treatment plan to the patient.
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Abstract
A system and method of optimizing delivery of a radiation therapy treatment. The system optimizes treatment delivery in real-time to take into account a variety of factors, such as patient anatomical and physiological changes (e.g., respiration and other movement, etc.), and machine configuration changes (e.g., beam output factors, couch error, leaf error, etc.).
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51 Claims
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1. A method of delivering a radiation therapy treatment, the method comprising:
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generating a treatment plan for a patient, the treatment plan specifying a beam intensity; positioning the patient to receive radiation; optimizing at least a portion of the treatment plan in substantially real-time to incorporate changes to one of the patient and a machine configuration; and delivering at least a portion of the optimized treatment plan to the patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method of delivering a radiation therapy treatment, the method comprising:
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generating a treatment plan for a patient, the treatment plan including an amount of radiation dose to be delivered to the patient based on a predetermined position of a target within the patient; monitoring the position of the target in the patient during delivery of the radiation therapy treatment; modifying the delivery of the radiation therapy treatment in substantially real-time to compensate for a position of the target different than the predetermined position; and substantially maintaining the amount of radiation dose to be delivered to the patient according to the treatment plan. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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50. A radiation delivery system for delivering a radiation therapy treatment, the radiation delivery system comprising:
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a computer processor; and a software program stored in a computer readable medium accessible by the computer processor, the software being operable to generate a treatment plan for a patient, the treatment plan specifying a beam intensity; position the patient to receive radiation; optimize at least a portion of the treatment plan in substantially real-time to incorporate changes to one of the patient and a machine configuration; and deliver at least a portion of the optimized treatment plan
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51. A computer program embodied by a computer readable medium capable of being executed by a computer, the computer program for use in a radiation delivery system, the computer program comprising:
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a treatment plan module operable to generate a treatment plan for a patient, the treatment plan specifying a beam intensity; a position module operable to position the patient with respect to the radiation delivery system; an optimization module operable to optimize at least a portion of the treatment plan in substantially real-time to incorporate changes to one of the patient and a machine configuration; and a treatment delivery module operable to deliver the optimized treatment plan to the patient.
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