A high-energy radiation treatment system can comprise a laser-driven accelerator system, a patient monitoring system, and a control system. The laser-driven accelerator system, such as a laser-driven plasma accelerator or a laser-driven dielectric microstructure accelerator, can be constructed to irradiate a patient disposed on a patient support. The patient monitoring system can be configured to detect and track a location or movement of a treatment volume within the patient. The control system can be configured to control the laser-driven accelerator system responsively to the location or movement of the treatment volume. The system can also include a beam control system, which generates a magnetic field that can affect the radiation beam and/or secondary electrons produced by the irradiation beam. In some embodiments, the beam control system and the patient monitoring system can comprise a magnetic resonance imaging system.

An apparatus comprising a radiation source, coincident positron omission detectors configured to detect coincident positron annihilation emissions originating within a coordinate system, and a controller coupled to the radiation source and the coincident positron emission detectors, the controller configured to identify coincident positron annihilation emission paths intersecting one or more volumes in the coordinate system and align the radiation source along an identified coincident positron annihilation emission path.

A system and method for delivering microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) includes a computed tomography scanner (“CT”) configured to generate tomographic images of a subject, or patient, the scanner including an imaging apparatus, a gantry with an opening for positioning the patient therein, an axis of rotation around which the gantry rotates, and an x-ray source mounted to and rotatable with the gantry. The system includes a bed for patient positioning within the gantry opening and a multi-slit collimator removably mounted downstream of the x-ray source for delivering an array of microbeams of MRT to a targeted portion of the patient. Switching between MRT and CT is provided, and MRT modes of operation include a stationary mode, and continuous and step-wise rotational modes.

The present invention makes it possible to provide a radiation therapy system capable of not only inhibiting treatment time from increasing more effectively than before but also reducing the loads of fluoroscopic radiation photographing apparatuses. The radiation therapy system has: a therapeutic radiation irradiation apparatus to irradiate a target with therapeutic radiation; two fluoroscopic radiation photographing apparatuses to photograph the target simultaneously from two directions; a target position computation apparatus to compute a three-dimensional position of the target on the basis of photographed fluoroscopic images; a therapeutic radiation irradiation control apparatus to control the irradiation of the therapeutic radiation on the basis of the computed three-dimensional position of the target; and a fluoroscopic radiation photographing control apparatus to control irradiation quantities per unit time of the fluoroscopic radiation photographing apparatuses on the basis of the three-dimensional position of the target.

The present invention relates to a radiotherapy apparatus and a method for determining target positions using a radiotherapy apparatus, so as to accurately detect the motion of the tumor position. The method includes: a ray source locating in a first position, and emitting a radiation beam; a detector receiving the radiation beam emitted by the ray source at the first position, and generating first image data of the target according to the radiation beam emitted by the ray source at the first position; the ray source moving to a second position and emitting a radiation beam, wherein an interval at which the ray source moves from the first position to the second position is a positive integer multiple of a preset breathing cycle of a patient; the detector receiving the radiation beam emitted by the ray source at the second position, and generating second image data of the target according to the radiation beam emitted by the ray source at the second position; and determining position information of the target according to the first image data and the second image data.

Disclosed herein are radiotherapy systems and methods that can display a workflow-oriented graphical user interface(s). In an embodiment, a system comprises a radiotherapy machine comprising: a couch; and a gantry having a camera in communication with a server, wherein the server is configured to: present for display, in real time on a screen associated with the radiotherapy machine, images received from the camera, wherein when the gantry changes its orientation, the camera revises at least one of its orientations, such that images transmitted to the server maintain an original orientation.

Systems and methods for implementing an adaptive therapy workflow that minimizes time needed to create a session patient model, select an appropriate plan for the treatment session, and treat the patient.

Disclosed are a radiotherapy system and a treatment plan generation method therefor. The radiotherapy system includes a beam irradiation device, a treatment planning module and a control module. The beam irradiation device generates a beam for treatment and irradiates same to a body to be irradiated to form an irradiated site, the treatment planning module generates a treatment plan on the basis of parameters of the beam for treatment and medical image data of the irradiated site, and the control module retrieves a treatment plan corresponding to said body from the treatment planning module and controls the beam irradiation device to sequentially irradiate said body according to at least two irradiation angles determined according to the treatment plan generation method and the irradiation time corresponding to each irradiation angle.

Disclosed are a neutron capture therapy device and an operation method of a monitoring system. The neutron capture therapy device includes a neutron beam irradiation system, a detection system and the monitoring system. The neutron beam irradiation system generates a neutron beam for performing neutron irradiation therapy on a sick body. The detection system is used for detecting irradiation parameters during a neutron beam irradiation therapy, and the monitoring system is used for controlling the whole neutron beam irradiation process. The monitoring system includes a storage part for storing the irradiation parameters, a control part for executing a therapy plan according to the irradiation parameters stored in the storage part, and a correction part for correcting part of the irradiation parameters stored in the storage part. The disclosure improves the accuracy of the dosage of the neutron beam for irradiating the sick body.

Systems and methods are provided for registering images. The systems and methods perform operations comprising: receiving, at a first time point in a given radiation session, a first imaging slice corresponding to a first plane; encoding the first imaging slice to a lower dimensional representation; applying a trained machine learning model to the encoded first imaging slice to estimate an encoded version of a second imaging slice corresponding to a second plane at the first time point to provide a pair of imaging slices for the first time point; simultaneously spatially registering the pair of imaging slices to a volumetric image, received prior to the given radiation session, comprising a time-varying object to calculate displacement of the object; and generating an updated therapy protocol to control delivery of a therapy beam based on the calculated displacement of the object.