Patent ID: 8964936
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: A61B,A61N

Abstract:
1. A method of verifying brachytherapy treatment comprising: inserting one or more brachytherapy devices into a breast of a patient; after insertion of the one or more brachytherapy devices into the patient breast, placing the patient in a prone position on a patient table surface having an opening or depression in which the patient's breast for brachytherapy treatment extends downwardly, wherein one or more brachytherapy devices remain located inside the breast during placement into the prone position; CT imaging the breast with radiation to verify brachytherapy related parameters using an imaging device located below the patient table surface, while the one or more brachytherapy devices remain located inside the breast during CT imaging; said brachytherapy related parameters including a position of the one or more brachytherapy devices that have remained located inside the patient's breast relative to anatomy of the breast; and generating image data for the patent's breast for assessing brachytherpay-related parameters, including image data related to said position of said one or more brachytherapy devices that have remained located inside the breast relative to breast tissue adjacent to said one or more brachytherapy devices.