Techniques for adjusting radiotherapy treatment for a patient in real time are provided. The techniques include operations comprising: obtaining, during delivery of a radiotherapy treatment fraction to a patient, one or more images of the patient at a first rate; generating patient motion information at a second rate based on the one or more images obtained at the first rate; receiving, during delivery of the radiotherapy treatment fraction, radiotherapy treatment device settings at a third rate; computing, during delivery of the radiotherapy treatment fraction, dose delivered to the patient with a first level of accuracy based on the generated patient motion information and the radiotherapy treatment device settings; and determining, during delivery of the radiotherapy treatment fraction, a real-time measure of accumulated dose delivered to the patient with a second greater level of accuracy than the first level of accuracy using one or more prior dose computations.

A neutron capture therapy system includes an accelerator for accelerating charged particles to generate a charged particle beam, a beam transmitting device, and a neutron beam generating device. The neutron beam generating device further includes a first, a second and a third neutron beam generating device. The beam transmitting device further includes a first transmitting device connected to the accelerator, a beam direction conversion device configured to switch a traveling direction of the charged particle beam, and a second, a third and a fourth transmitting device that respectively transmit the charged particle beam from the beam direction conversion device to the first, the second and the third neutron beam generating device, wherein two of the first, the third and the fourth transmitting device define a first plane, a first and a second transmitting device define a second plane, and the first plane is different from the second plane.

An example method of radiation therapy in a radiation therapy system that includes a gantry with a treatment-delivering X-ray source and an imaging X-ray source mounted thereon is described. The method includes rotating the gantry in a first direction at a first rotational velocity about an open bore and concurrently rotating an annular support structure at a second rotational velocity about the open bore, wherein the second rotational velocity is less than the first rotational velocity. While continuing to rotate the gantry in the first direction about the open bore from a first position to a treatment position, the method also includes generating multiple images of a target volume disposed in the bore using the imaging X-ray source. Upon rotating the gantry to the treatment position, the method includes initiating delivery of a treatment beam to the target volume with the treatment-delivering X-ray source.

The system includes a bed on which an irradiation target is mounted, an irradiation device that irradiates the irradiation target with a particle beam, and a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus that captures an image of an irradiation object and includes a magnet that generates a static magnetic field in an image capturing space in which the irradiation target is disposed, and a yoke disposed outside the image capturing space and through which a magnetic flux of the generated magnetic field passes. The irradiation device 21 is disposed on a back surface side of the yoke when viewed from the image capturing space, and irradiates the irradiation target with the particle beam from a through-hole or gap provided in the yoke. A direction in which the particle beam enters the image capturing space intersects with a direction of a static magnetic field applied to the image capturing space by the magnet.

A patient irradiation treatment plan verification system, the system constituted of: a treatment irradiation source arranged to output a treatment irradiation beam; a first detector; and a patient support member arranged to support a patient, the patient support member positioned between the treatment irradiation source and the first detector, wherein the first detector is arranged to detect the output treatment irradiation beam after the output treatment irradiation beam has irradiated the supported patient and output information regarding the detected irradiation beam.

The present document relates to providing a radiation treatment plan for treatment of a neoplasm, including the steps of: obtaining an image including the neoplasm and obtaining first segmentation data for segmenting at least one target-volume to be targeted with radiation. Further identifying any organs-at-risk and segmenting these. The method further comprises identifying lymphocyte-rich-organs in the image, and obtaining third segmentation data for segmenting the lymphocyte- rich-organs. The planning system then obtains radiation dose regime data, including first, second and third dose regime data. The planning system then determines a radiation treatment plan which provides treatment process parameters for operating one or more radiation beams for radiation treatment of the neoplasm, The process parameters are determined to apply the radiation at a first radiation dose to the target volume which corresponds with the first dose regime data, apply the radiation at a minimized second radiation dose to the or each organs-at-risk, and apply the

A radiation treatment system and an operation procedure of an irradiation parameter verification device. The radiation treatment system comprises a radiation generation device, an irradiation chamber used for placing a patient, a carrying device used for transferring and bearing the patient, a collimator provided in the irradiation chamber, an irradiation parameter verification device used for determining whether the position of the patient is suitable for performing radiation irradiation treatment or not, and a collimator model, wherein the collimator comprises a collimator outlet; the collimator model comprises a collimator model outlet; the shape and the size of the collimator model outlet are the same as those of the collimator outlet, and the size of the collimator model in the direction perpendicular to the collimator model outlet is smaller than the size of the collimator in the direction perpendicular to the collimator outlet.

To provide a radiation treatment system which enables wide irradiation range of radiation to a patient without increasing a load on a structure body. A radiation treatment system includes: a couch that carries a treatment target; a radiation source; a rotation mechanism configured to support the radiation source and to rotate the radiation source around the couch; a sensor configured to detect radiation transmitted through the treatment target; and a control unit configured to control the radiation source and the rotation mechanism, and the control unit sets an irradiation plan in which an irradiation range of first irradiation and an irradiation range of second irradiation are partially overlapped, and controls a radiation dose for an overlapping portion based on a detection result obtained by the sensor.

Provided is a method controlling a dose. The method includes: acquiring a therapy plan; dividing each of the plurality of dose control points in the therapy plan into a plurality of refined control points, wherein each of the plurality of refined control points corresponds to a target dose; performing the therapy plan, and performing a real-time statistical collection on an actual dose; and adjusting, based on a target dose and the actual dose at a refined control point that is executed, a target dose at a refined control point that is not executed in real time.

It is provided a method for checking quality of a treatment plan, wherein a treatment plan specifies a distribution of radiation to thereby provide radiation to a planning target volume. The method is performed by a quality assurance device and comprises the steps of: obtaining a treatment plan and a corresponding first dose, the treatment plan having been calculated in a treatment planning system, the first dose being a predicted dose to be deposited in the patient using the treatment plan; initiating a calculation of a secondary dose, being a dose deposited by the treatment plan, using a secondary dose calculation algorithm; repeatedly calculating a confidence interval of a comparative statistical measurement by comparing the first dose and the secondary dose over a defined geometric volume; and interrupting the calculation of the secondary dose when the confidence interval is better than at least one predefined criterion.