William R Tomer

US Patent:

20080306759, Dec 11, 2008

Filed:

Feb 9, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/704795

Inventors:

Hakan Mehmel Ilkin - Pittsburgh PA, US
Zeyno Aygen - Bethesda MD, US
William J. Tomer - Pittsburgh PA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 50/00
G08B 23/00
G06F 3/048

US Classification:

705 2, 3405731, 715765

Abstract:

A system and method to communicate workflow process information associated with a patient. A notification configuration message includes at least one notification rule is received. The notification rule includes conditional tests to determine whether to transmit a notification message, determine the medium for communicating the notification message, and determine a recipient of the notification message. Patient information including the state of the patient through a patient workflow process is received. The notification message including the patient information is transmitted in a communication medium in accordance with the at least one notification rule.

US Patent:

20120250824, Oct 4, 2012

Filed:

Mar 31, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/077456

Inventors:

JOHN M. WRIGHT - Dorset, GB
William Tomer - Ben Avon PA, US
Michael J. Hudson - Great Missenden, GB

Assignee:

Axellis Ventures Ltd. - Market Harborough

International Classification:

A61N 5/10
G21K 3/00

US Classification:

378 65, 378159

Abstract:

A method of validating a compensator for use in a radiation therapy machine to treat a cancer patient involves determining a radiation treatment plan based on a compensator description file that includes data representative of an actual machined surface of the compensator. The plan includes operating parameters of the radiation therapy machine, and this plan is compared against actual radiation measurements taken during a non-patient test of the radiation therapy machine with the compensator mounted to the machine. If the comparison results in a match, the compensator is validated for use in the radiation therapy machine to treat the cancer patient.

US Patent:

20120253495, Oct 4, 2012

Filed:

Mar 31, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/077306

Inventors:

JOHN M. WRIGHT - Gillingham, GB
William Tomer - Ben Avon PA, US
Michael J. Hudson - Great Missenden, GB

Assignee:

Axellis Ventures Ltd. - Market Harborough

International Classification:

G06F 19/00
G06F 17/50

US Classification:

700 98

Abstract:

A compensator is used with a radiation therapy machine to treat a cancer patient. A three-dimensional surface of the compensator is defined by obtaining a radiation dose requirement created by a treatment planning system associated with the radiation therapy machine and determining a plurality of grid elements based on that radiation dose requirement. At least one of a plurality of points on each of the plurality of grid elements is connected with at least one of the plurality of points on another one of the plurality of grid elements to form a representation of the three-dimensional compensator.