Device for detecting the position of radiation target points

• US 5,628,315 A
• Filed: 09/11/1995
• Issued: 05/13/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Brainlab AG
• Original Assignee: Brainlab Medizinische Computersysteme GmbH (Brainlab AG)
• Inventors: Lippstreu, Stefan, Vilsmeier, Stefan, Bertram, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Lateef, Marvin M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHAW, SHAWNA JEANNINE
• Application Number:
  US08/526,772
• Time in Patent Office: 610 Days
• Field of Search: 128/653.1, 128/897, 606/130
• US Class Current: 600/426
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/101 for stereotaxic radiosurgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 5/1049 for verifying the position of the patient with respect to the radiation beam

Abstract

The present invention pertains to a device for detecting the position of radiation target points with an anchoring means for attachment to a patient reference system, especially to a stereotactic immobilization system, e.g., a head ring, and with a labeling means, arranged on the anchoring means, for at least one point of coordinates in various three-dimensional projections, in which case the labeling means consists of several computer-printed surface materials, which plot the point of coordinates in a three-dimensional manner.

Claims

1. Device for detecting the position of radiation target points in a body to be radiated while in a patient reference system, said target points having defined coordinates relative to said system, said device comprising

an anchoring means for attachment to the patient reference system, and

a labeling means, arranged on the anchoring means, for said defined coordinates of at least one target point in various three-dimensional projections,

said labeling means comprising several computer-printed surface materials, which plot the defined coordinates of said target point in a three-dimensional manner.

2. Device in accordance with claim 1, said anchoring means having

a rectangular, cubic or right-parallelepiped-shaped housing, which is open on one side and providing a plurality of lateral surfaces on other sides, and

holding fixtures for the computer-printed surface materials on the lateral surfaces.

3. Device in accordance with claim 1 wherein the surface materials are films with computer-printed coordinate labelings projected onto the surface material.

4. Device in accordance with claim 1 including printed outlines of the body to be radiated on the surface materials.

5. Device in accordance with claim 2, said holding fixtures and the associated surface materials of the labeling means are each provided with positional labels which may be registered with only one side of the housing.

6. Device in accordance with claim 5, wherein said positional labels of the holding fixtures and the computer-printed materials respectively comprise unique indicia adapted to register with each other, such that, in each case, only the surface material associated with one holding fixture can be inserted into said one holding fixture.

7. Device according to claim 1 wherein said surface materials are transparent to the radiation to be applied to said target point, whereby said labeling means are adapted to be used to direct said radiation to said target point.