Patent ID: 11925818
Assignee: nan
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 8:
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:
accelerating the positively charged particles to a current relativistic energy using said accelerator;
said step of transporting passing the positively charged particles through the patient to yield a residual particle beam comprising a residual relativistic velocity;
determining the residual relativistic velocity using a first time of flight detector and a second time of flight detector separated by a separation distance; and
generating a positively charged particle computed tomography image with at least one of:
the residual relativistic velocity;
an increased mass of the positively charged particles determined using the residual relativistic velocity; and
an energy of the residual particle beam associated with the residual relativistic velocity,

wherein individual particles in the residual particle beam comprise a second mass of at least 1.02 times that of the individual particles prior to said step of accelerating.