APPARATUS AND METHOD TO FACILITATE GENERATING A TREATMENT PLAN FOR IRRADIATING A PATIENT'S TREATMENT VOLUME
First Claim
1. A method to facilitate generating a treatment plan for irradiating a treatment volume within a patient, comprising:
- providing a plurality of different treatment plans for the patient wherein at least one of the plurality of different treatment plans is provided by using deformation information that is obtained by at least one of;
using historical information for persons other than the patient regarding physical changes over time as correspond to at least one volume within the patient; and
using calculated information regarding physical changes as correspond to the at least one volume within the patient;
obtaining data as pertains to the patient;
selecting a particular one of the plurality of different treatment plans as a function, as least in part, of the data as pertains to the patient to provide a selected treatment plan;
using the selected treatment plan when irradiating the treatment volume within the patient.
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Abstract
One provides (101) a plurality of different treatment plans for a given patient, wherein at least one such plans is provided by using deformation information that is obtained by using historical information for persons other than the given patient regarding physical changes over time as correspond to at least one volume within the given patient and/or calculated information regarding physical changes as correspond to the at least one volume within the patient. Obtained data (102) as pertains to the patient is then used to select (103) a particular one of the aforementioned plurality of different treatment plans.
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24 Claims
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1. A method to facilitate generating a treatment plan for irradiating a treatment volume within a patient, comprising:
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providing a plurality of different treatment plans for the patient wherein at least one of the plurality of different treatment plans is provided by using deformation information that is obtained by at least one of; using historical information for persons other than the patient regarding physical changes over time as correspond to at least one volume within the patient; and using calculated information regarding physical changes as correspond to the at least one volume within the patient; obtaining data as pertains to the patient; selecting a particular one of the plurality of different treatment plans as a function, as least in part, of the data as pertains to the patient to provide a selected treatment plan; using the selected treatment plan when irradiating the treatment volume within the patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An apparatus to facilitate generating a treatment plan for irradiating a treatment volume within a patient, comprising:
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a first memory having stored therein a plurality of different treatment plans for the patient wherein at least one of the plurality of different treatment plans is provided by using deformation information that is obtained by at least one of; using historical information for persons other than the patient regarding physical changes over time as correspond to at least one volume within the patient; and using calculated information regarding physical changes as correspond to the at least one volume within the patient; a second memory having stored therein data as pertains to the patient; a third memory having stored therein an original diagnostic image as pertains to the treatment volume; a processor operably coupled to the first memory, the second memory, and the third memory and being configured to use the deformation information to modify the original diagnostic image as pertains to the treatment volume to thereby provide at least one modified image and further having a user interface to permit a user to select a particular one of the plurality of different treatment plans as corresponds to a modified image having at least one metric that correlates most closely to a corresponding metric in the data as pertains to the patient. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method to facilitate generating a treatment plan for irradiating a treatment volume within a patient, comprising:
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providing a treatment plan for the patient wherein the treatment plan is provided by using deformation information that is obtained by at least one of; using historical information for persons other than the patient regarding physical changes over time as correspond to at least one volume within the patient; and using calculated information regarding physical changes as correspond to the at least one volume within the patient; using the treatment plan when irradiating the treatment volume within the patient.
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23. A method to facilitate generating a treatment plan for irradiating a treatment volume within a patient, comprising:
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providing a plurality of different treatment plans for the patient wherein at least one of the plurality of different treatment plans is provided by using deformation information that is obtained by using information regarding anticipated physical changes over time as correspond to at least one volume within the patient; obtaining data as pertains to the patient; selecting a particular one of the plurality of different treatment plans as a function, as least in part, of the data as pertains to the patient to provide a selected treatment plan; using the selected treatment plan when irradiating the treatment volume within the patient. - View Dependent Claims (24)
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