Patent ID: 8784290
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: A61B,A61N

Abstract:
1. A radiosurgical method for treating a patient body having a heart, the heart having a non-tumorous disease, the method comprising: acquiring three dimensional planning image data from the heart; planning an ionizing radiation treatment of a target region of the heart using the three dimensional planning image data so as to mitigate the disease; after the planning of the treatment, implanting a position surrogate within the body by advancing at least one elongate flexible body through a blood vessel and coupling the surrogate to tissue so that the surrogate exhibits movement induced by a heart beat; remodeling the target region of the heart by directing the planned radiation from outside the body toward the target region with reference to the implanted surrogate; monitoring a heart beat cycle from the body while acquiring the planning image data; and acquiring a time series of three dimensional image data sets distributed throughout the heart beat cycle so as to indicate heart tissue movement with the heart beat cycle; wherein the planning of the treatment comprises: wherein the remodeling of the target region is performed by: