Patent ID: 7859261
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A method for therapeutically treating tissue in a living subject with high-energy radiation comprising the steps of: designating a target volume in a living subject containing tissue to be irradiated with high-energy radiation, said high-energy radiation having an energy associated therewith that produces a therapeutically beneficial modification of said tissue; prior to irradiating said target volume with said high-energy radiation, obtaining a magnetic resonance image, with a magnetic resonance apparatus, of a region of the subject containing said target volume by exposing the subject in the magnetic resonance apparatus to a magnetic resonance imaging sequence that causes the magnetic resonance image to contain information that is representative of the T in a processor, automatically identifying a degree of attenuation of the high-energy radiation in the said region represented in said obtained magnetic resonance image by analyzing the T designating a propagation path of said high-energy radiation proceeding in the subject to said target volume; and selectively orienting said propagation path dependent on the identified degree of attenuation of the high-energy radiation in the propagation path.