PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058674
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["378", "068000"]

Abstract:
The presently described method is directed to determining a way of positioning a patient before execution of a medical procedure involving irradiating the patient with ionizing treatment radiation based on comparing medical images of the patient with a pre-acquired medical image. The planning computed tomography is searched for an image of the reference stricture in order to determine the position of the patient relative to a patient support device. A retroreflective marker device, having a known and advantageously fixed position relative to the base plate, is detected by a navigation system operatively coupled to a motor of the support device. Based on the detected position of the marker device, the motor of the support device is activated to drive the patient into a desired position relative to beam direction along which the treatment radiation is to be issued towards the patient to execute the medical procedure.

Claim (Index 14):
A non-transitory computer-readable program storage medium storing a computer program which, when executed on a processor of a computer or when loaded into a memory of the computer, causes the computer to perform a computer-implemented method of determining positioning control data describing a positioning procedure for positioning an anatomical body part of a patient on a patient support device, the method comprising executing, on the processor of the computer, steps of:\n acquiring, at the processor, reference medical image data describing a reference image representation of a reference structure; acquiring, at the processor, patient medical image data describing a patient image representation of the anatomical body part and the reference structure; acquiring, at the processor, treatment position data describing a predetermined treatment position of the anatomical body part which it shall attain for conducting a medical procedure; acquiring, at the processor, marker reference position data describing a predetermined spatial relationship between a marker device and the reference structure; acquiring, at the processor, actual marker position data describing the actual position of the marker device; determining, by the processor and based on the reference medical image data and the patient medical image data, body part reference position data describing the spatial relationship between the anatomical body part and the reference structure; determining, by the processor and based on the body part reference position data and the marker reference position data, body part marker position data describing the spatial relationship between the anatomical body part and the marker device; determining, by the processor and based on the treatment position data and the marker reference position data and the body part marker position data, positioning control data describing a positioning procedure for positioning the anatomical body part, wherein the reference medical image data does not describe an image representation of the anatomical body part.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98701
- Patent Class: 378.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15118724', '15311183', '15741968', '15024542', '14907080']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5969353945708575
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4662564648182588
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5838675015955976
- Mean Citation Score: 204.455886
- Max Citation Score: 288.9514200000001
- Similarity Product: 272.2751230722071

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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