Patent ID: 9237860
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: A61B,A61N

Claim Text:
1. A system for producing image data regarding a planning target volume (PTV) within a patient's body, the system comprising: at least one marker that is implantable at the PTV within the patient; sensors positioned to receive an electromagnetic location signal that is broadcast by the active marker, the sensors being spaced apart from each other in a known geometry relative to each other; a signal processing component configured to produce real-time localization data corresponding to the location signal based on the known geometry, the real-time localization data including a plurality of time stamps and spatial coordinates associated with a corresponding one of the time stamps; and a system interface operably coupled with the signal processing component, the system interface also being operably coupled with an imaging system that scans the PTV to produce raw image data regarding the PTV, wherein the imaging system uses a processing algorithm to construct at least one of image frames and image slices, and wherein the system interface is configured to