Granted Patent B2

US 12,364,445 · App. 17/964,178 · Granted Jul 22, 2025

Inventors: Ilana Feain (New South Wales, AU); Stephen Towe (East Sussex, GB); Mark Strangeman (West Sussex, GB)

Assignee: LEO CANCER CARE, INC.

A61B6/0478A61B5/055A61B5/702A61B6/032A61B6/0487A61B6/107A61N5/1045A61N5/1077A61B2562/18A61N2005/1094A61N2005/1097

Abstract

Claims (24)

1. An upright patient positioning assembly comprising:

a patient support and a platform pivotally mounted to a stand; and

a plurality of actuators connecting the platform to the stand and configured to pivot the platform about a pivot point that is offset from a geometrical center of the platform,

wherein the platform tilts relative to the stand around the pivot point of the platform with at least two degrees of freedom.

2. The upright patient positioning assembly of claim 1 , wherein the patient support is configured to receive a patient in an upright position.

3. The upright patient positioning assembly of claim 1 , wherein the patient support is offset from a vertical axis of rotation of the upright patient positioning assembly such that a patient positioned on the patient support is aligned with the vertical axis of rotation of the upright patient positioning assembly.

4. The upright patient positioning assembly of claim 1 , wherein the upright patient positioning assembly is adapted to rotate around a vertical axis.

5. The upright patient positioning assembly of claim 1 , wherein the platform is mounted on a rounded member.

6. The upright patient positioning assembly of claim 5 , wherein the rounded member is in the shape of a sphere, a hemisphere, a portion of a sphere, or other rounded surface.

7. The upright patient positioning assembly of claim 1 , wherein the pivot point is offset from an isocenter of a treatment system or an imaging system.

8. The upright patient positioning assembly of claim 1 , wherein the platform is independently rotatable about three orthogonal axes to provide yaw rotations of the platform, pitch rotations of the platform, and roll rotations of the platform.

9. The upright patient positioning assembly of claim 1 , wherein the platform is independently translatable along three orthogonal axes to provide vertical translations of the platform and horizontal translations of the platform.

10. The upright patient positioning assembly of claim 1 , wherein the patient support comprises any one or more of: a seat member, a back rest, a shin rest, an arm rest, or a foot brace.

11. A system comprising the upright patient positioning assembly of claim 1 and a fixed treatment beam or a medical imaging source.

12. The system of claim 11 , comprising a fixed treatment beam and a medical imaging source.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the medical imaging source comprises an imaging beam that is orthogonal to the fixed treatment beam.

14. The system of claim 11 , further comprising a detection panel.

15. The system of claim 11 , further comprising:

a wall defining a space in which the upright patient positioning assembly is located, the wall being adapted to intersect a path of the fixed treatment beam or; and the upright patient positioning assembly being interposed between the wall and the fixed treatment beam; and

a beam-stopper shield located on an opposite side of the wall relative to the upright patient positioning assembly,

wherein the beam-stopper shield has an absorption area for absorbing the fixed treatment beam, and wherein the absorption area has a size that is approximately equivalent to a maximum range of scattering of the fixed treatment beam.

16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the beam-stopper shield comprises a plurality of stacked absorption layers.

17. The system of claim 11 , wherein a computerized tomography scanner comprises the medical imaging source.

18. The system of claim 17 , wherein the computerized tomography scanner is located vertically above the patient positioning system.

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Priority Claims (1)

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