Summaries by Inventor Zhao, Tianyu

Comfortable radiotherapy couch to improve precision and accuracy
Mutic, Sasa ; Zhao, Tianyu
T-018538

— Background: High precision and accuracy is critically needed for the use of radiation treatment and diagnostic imaging (magnetic resonance imaging, computerized tomography, X-ray, positron emission tomography); each of these modalities uses the standard flat couch to manipulate the patient during pr…

Novel Software to Increase the Accuracy of Proton Therapy
Chen, Xinyuan ; Medrano, Maria ; O'Sullivan, Joseph ; Williamson, Jeffrey ; Zhao, Tianyu
T-020198

— Technology Description Developed by researchers in the Williamson and O’Sullivan Labs at the Washington University in St. Louis, this technology is a novel software platform that creates more accurate proton beam targeting to tumors. The software is used during proton therapy treatment plann…