A radiation system employs a couch top rotatable about a yaw axis to provide non-coplanar irradiation of a patient in an O-ring type of radiation machine. The radiation machine includes a source operable to produce radiation and a housing enclosing the source. The housing defines a bore and the source is rotatable at least partially around the bore. The couch top is adapted to be rotatable about a yaw axis, thereby allowing non-coplanar irradiation of at least a portion of the patient by the source. A radiation method is also provided.

System for treatment positioning is provided. The system may include a treatment component, an imaging component, and a couch. The treatment component may include a radiation source that has a radiation isocenter. The couch may be movable between the treatment component and the imaging component, and include a positioning line that has a positioning feature. The system may acquire at least one first image relating to a subject and the positioning line using the radiation source at a set-up position. The system may also acquire at least one second image relating to the subject and the positioning line using the imaging component at an imaging position. The system may further determine a treatment isocenter of a target of the subject based on the at least one second image, and determine a treatment position of the subject based on the first image(s), the second image(s), and the positioning line.

Disclosed herein is a medical instrument (100, 300). Execution of the machine executable instructions causes a processor (106) to: receive (206) a set of joint location coordinates (128) for a subject (118) reposing on a subject support (120), receive (207) a body orientation (132) in response to inputting the set of joint location coordinates into a predetermined logic module (130), calculate (208) a torso aspect ratio (134) from set of joint location coordinates. If (210) the torso aspect ratio is greater than a predetermined threshold (136) then (212) the body pose of the subject is a decubitus pose. Execution of the machine executable instructions further cause the processor to assign (220) the body pose as being a supine pose if the subject is face up on the subject support or assign (222) the body pose as being a prone pose if the subject is face down on the subject support if the torso aspect ratio is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold. Execution of the machine executable instructions further cause the processor to generate (216) a subject pose label (142).

A radiation therapy system includes an accelerator and beam transport system that generates a beam of particles. The accelerator and beam transport system guides the beam on a path and into a nozzle that is operable for aiming the beam toward an object. The nozzle includes a scanning magnet operable for steering the beam toward different locations within the object, and also includes a beam energy adjuster configured to adjust the beam by, for example, placing different thicknesses of material in the path of the beam to affect the energies of the particles in the beam.

Disclosed is a patient positioning assembly for orientating a patient with respect to a radiation source. The patient positioning assembly includes a translatable member movable in a vertical direction between a vertically downwards first position and a vertically upwards second position. The patient positioning assembly further includes a patient support assembly mounted to the translatable member and adapted to rotate relative to the translatable member about a vertical axis. The patient support assembly is configurable between a first orientation, which sustains the patient in a seated position, and a second orientation, which sustains the patient in a generally standing position.

The present disclosure provides a radiation therapy device and a magnetic resonance guided radiation therapy system. The radiation therapy device may include an electron gun and a curved beam deflection unit. The beam deflection unit may be configured to accelerate an electron beam emitted from the electron gun within a magnetic field. The magnetic resonance guided radiation therapy system may include a radiation therapy device and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device.

A radio therapy system includes a first x-ray source. The first x-ray source is configured to produce first x-ray photons in a first energy range suitable for imaging and project the first x-ray photons onto an area designated for imaging. The system includes a second x-ray source configured to produce second x-ray photons in a second energy range higher energy than the first energy range, produce third x-ray photons in a third energy range higher energy than the first energy range, project the second x-ray photons onto the area designated for imaging, and project the third x-ray photons onto an area designated for treatment. The system includes an analytical portion configured to collect and combine data to create a composite output including at least one image, the combining based in part on a spectral analysis.

Systems and techniques for reliably predicting a motion phase for non-invasive treatment of the heart. The system and methods may account for both respiratory and cardiac cycles in characterizing the motion of the heart relative to the irradiation source. The system and methods may also include a heartbeat sensor that provides an independent reference indication of the cardiac phase to provide real-time or near real-time quality assurance of a current predicted phase indication. The disclosed system and methods may be configured for use in one of two modes: “beam-gating” and “beam-tracking”. For beam-gating, the predicted cardiac phase is compared to the desired gating window, based on the patient-specific treatment plan, to determine if a gate ON or gate OFF signal should be set. For beam-tracking, the predicted cardiac phase is used to load the appropriate beam parameters based on the patient-specific and motion phase-dependent treatment plans.

The invention is related to particle induced radiography system, comprising a particle radiation source device, implant module, external detector device, central module and other controls, in which the implant module comprises active and/or passive components in tandem with the readout electronics and communication chosen to measure the beam properties and to generate and detect secondary gamma photons from the nuclear interactions, the external detector device provides a position sensitive gamma detector with a high detection efficiency, good spatial resolution and a relatively large field of view necessary for particle treatments useful in monitoring both the implanted device and the patient anatomical areas under treatment, and the external detector device can also be used to perform 3D spectral imaging on any material samples using proton beam as a probe.

A method for delivering radiation treatment may include defining a preliminary trajectory including a plurality of control points. Each control point may be associated with position parameters of a gantry and a couch. The method may also include generating a treatment plan based on the preliminary trajectory by optimizing an intensity and position parameters of a collimator and MLC leaves for each control point. The method may also include decomposing the treatment plan into a delivery trajectory including the plurality of control points. Each of the plurality of control points may be further associated with the optimized intensity, the optimized position parameters of the collimator and the MLC leaves, an output rate, and a motion parameter of each of the gantry, the couch, the collimator, and the MLC leaves. The method may further include instructing a radiation delivery device to deliver the treatment plan according to the delivery trajectory.