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| 20120035511 | SYSTEM AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING ELECTROMAGNETIC ILLUMINATION A method of inducing local cell death in patient tissue is provided. The method includes generating first and second radiation, conveying the radiation to a focusing element, and focusing the radiation on a target with the focusing element. A system for inducing local c... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035689 | HEAT AND LIGHT-EMITTING PAD An application for a heat and light emitting pad has an array of light and heat emitting devices such as LEDS mounted on a circuit board and held within a sponge material. A controller provides a controlled amount of power to the LEDS such that the LEDS emit a therapeut... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110319971 | METHOD AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A TREATMENT BY SUBCUTANEOUS OR INTRACUTANEOUS IRRADIATION BY MEANS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION To automatically control a treatment during which subcutaneous or intracutaneous irradiation by means of electromagnetic treatment radiation and possibly targeted electromagnetic radiation is carried out, the following steps are implemented: acquisition of several succe... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110245900 | DEEP HEATING HYPERTHERMIA USING PHASED ARRAYS AND PATIENT POSITIONING A hyperthermia treatment system for heating a selected region within a target body that includes a power source and a plurality of electromagnetic applicators that are in electrical communication with the power source and arranged in a surrounding array around a focal r... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110202048 | METHODS FOR PAIN REDUCTION WITH FUNCTIONAL THERMAL STIMULATION AND TISSUE TREATMENT SYSTEMS Methods and systems for delivering electromagnetic energy to a patient's tissue with an attendant reduction in the pain experienced by the patient due to tissue heating. Electromagnetic energy is delivered from an electrode through a skin surface to heat a first region ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110190726 | Method and apparatus for micro-needle array electrode treatment of tissue Systems and methods for revitalizing aging skin using electromagnetic energy that is delivered using a plurality of needles that are capable of penetrating the skin to desired depths. A particular aspect is the capability to spare zones of tissue from thermal exposure. ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110172586 | Treatment of Microbial Infections Using Hot and Cold Thermal Shock and Pressure A method of treating microbial infections, which consists of the steps of sequentially and repeatedly irradiating the microbe with continuous or pulsed infrared radiation and continuous or pulsed cooling such that heat and cold alternatively penetrates to the site of th... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110130618 | ESTHETIC APPARATUS USEFUL FOR INCREASING SKIN REJUVENATION AND METHODS THEREOF The present invention provides a system for increasing skin rejuvenation of a region of a patient's skin comprising a pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) frequency generator for constantly providing electromagnetic pulses to said region of a patient's skin and a deep ti... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20100312314 | Apparatus for Increasing Blood Perfusion and Improving Heat Sinking to Skin An apparatus for increasing the blood perfusion in skin by elevating the temperature, and for providing superior heat sinking to the skin of thermally dissipative devices is disclosed. The increased perfusion gives rise to improved thermal transport properties near the ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100286752 | CAPSULAR DEVICE FOR ESTHETIC AND THERAPEUTIC BODY TREATMENT A capsular device for esthetic and therapeutic treatment, but particular involves a device for body treatment that allows emission of infrared together with negative ions, allowing easy elimination of toxins, heavy metals, preventive control of some diseases and postsur... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100256552 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING MEIBOMIAN GLAND DYSFUNCTION A method and apparatus for treating gland dysfunction caused by gland obstruction in order to restore the natural flow of secretion from the gland comprises the application of a combination of energy, suction, vibration, heat, aspiration, chemical agents and pharmacolog... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100094385 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL OF PATIENTS DURING SURGERY An infrared radiant heating system for raising or maintaining a uniform core temperature of the body of a patient during surgery, substantially without affecting the temperature of the area surrounding the patient's body, comprising: infrared radiant heating means which... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100049284 | USE OF HEAT TO TREAT BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS EXPOSED TO DAMAGING RADIATION A method wherein, following a therapeutic radiation treatment, a heat dose is administered to the treated cells to decrease the damage caused by radiation exposure or a therapeutic agent.... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100010596 | METHOD AND SYSTEM RELATING TO HYPERTHERMIA A method and system for selective heating of an object based on a model of the object, the method comprising the steps of: modeling of a wave front of a source, which wave front is propagated through the model object from a virtual antenna placed in the model of the spe... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090312822 | Far Infrared Heat Emitting Therapeutic Device A far infrared heat emitting device includes a pad for positioning over or around a body part of a user such as a waist, leg, arm, or back. The user may be a human or an animal such as a pet. The device can include straps to form a belt sized to fit around the waist of ... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090276017 | Thermal therapy temperature sensor calibration method A thermal therapy of body tissue with electromagnetic energy is controlled by feedback from one or more temperature sensors placed in the vicinity of the tissue to be treated. The temperature sensors are calibrated by comparing stabilized temperature values of the one o... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090149930 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR COOLING A TREATMENT APPARATUS CONFIGURED TO NON-INVASIVELY DELIVER ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY TO A PATIENT'S TISSUE Apparatus and methods for delivering electromagnetic energy to a patient's tissue. The treatment apparatus includes a closed-loop cooling system that cools the energy delivery device. The fluid forced to flow in the closed-loop cooling system is chilled to a first tempe... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090105790 | Near Infrared Microbial Elimination Laser Systems (NIMELS) Methods, systems, and apparatus for Near Infrared Microbial Elimination Laser Systems (NIMELS) including use with medical devices are disclosed. The medical devices can be situated in vivo. Suitable medical devices include catheters, stents, artificial joints, and the l... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090060963 | Wearing Article Capable of Promoting Human Health A wearing article includes an article element and a fastening mechanism. The article element includes at least one pack unit that has a fabric housing and a flexible pad body fitted into the fabric housing and including a thin elastic matrix of an elastic material and a... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090048649 | Heat transfer device: seal and thermal energy contact units A device has four fundamental components: an enclosure, a soft seal, a vacuum system and a thermal energy system having a thermal energy contacting element. The device provides thermal energy therapy and negative pressure therapy device simultaneously and/or in conjunct... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090048648 | Self-sterilizing device An insertable medical element may be supportive of evanescent energy for sterilization of a biomaterial. A system including an insertable medical element supportive of evanescent energy may include an energy source, where the energy source may be emissive of electromagn... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090024193 | Method And Apparatus For Photothermal Treatment Of Tissue At Depth The present invention provides method and apparatus for treating tissue in a region at depth by applying optical radiation thereto of a wavelength able to reach the depth of the region and of a selected relatively low power for a duration sufficient for the radiation to... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090012585 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LIGHT-BASED HAIR REMOVAL USING INCOHERENT LIGHT PULSES Methods and apparatus for damaging hair follicles using a series of rapidly-delivered low-fluence pulses of coherent or incoherent light are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the pulses of coherent or incoherent light have a wavelength or wavelengths primarily in t... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080319518 | CHARGED PARTICLE GENERATOR AND FUNCTIONAL FABRIC HAVING A CHARGED PARTICLE EMISSION FUNCTION Provided are a charged particle generator that continually generates large quantities of charged particles as a result of temperature dependent excitation, functional fibers comprising composite carbon particles, having SP3 and SP2 structures, and ... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080288035 | Stimulation Device for Treating Osteoarthritis A device for providing therapeutic treatment to a body part such as a joint to promote healing of the body part comprises a signal generator for generating a pulsed electromagnetic field based upon a selected treatment mode, a controller for storing the treatment mode a... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080262576 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SOMATIC TREATMENT Embodiments of somatic cell treatment are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080255643 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS RELATING TO PREVENTION OF CHEMOTHERAPY-INDUCED ALOPECIA The present invention relates to a method for protecting a human patient or a mammalian animal to be subjected to chemotherapy treatment of a tumor not residing in the scalp of the patient or the skin of the animal against chemotherapy-induced alopecia, comprising admin... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080249592 | Resiliently conformable applicator structure A fluid filled applicator conformed to position a source of electromagnetic radiation adjacent a portion of human anatomy to interpose a fluid of known characteristics between the source and the adjacent tissue includes in its first form a generally resilient envelope r... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080228063 | System and method for irradiating a target with electromagnetic radiation to produce a heated region A system and corresponding method for irradiating a target with electromagnetic radiation to produce a heated region. The system comprises a coupling device operable to couple electromagnetic radiation from a magnetic resonance imaging system. A plurality of energy radi... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080221649 | Method of sequentially treating tissue A treatment for deep tissue using long effective pulse durations is described. Fatty tissue can be treated by delivering a beam of radiation to a subcutaneous fat region disposed relative to a dermal interface in a target region of skin. Radiation is delivered to a firs... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080161888 | Treatment of Skin by Spatial Modulation of Thermal Injury A method for treating skin includes a first beam of radiation and a second beam of radiation. The first beam of radiation is delivered to a first region of skin to cause a plurality of sub-surface volumes of a first thermal injury, which can elicit a healing response fr... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080116891 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-ECHO BANDWIDTH MATCH IMAGING A system and method for medical imaging includes an improvement to the MP-RAGE pulse sequence that enables the readout bandwidth thereof to be matched to that of other pulse sequences used in the same examination without a significant loss in SNR. More specifically, the... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080114428 | Thermal Treatment Systems With Acoustic Monitoring, And Associated Methods A thermal treatment system with acoustic monitoring applies substantially constant electromagnetic energy superposed with pulsed electromagnetic energy to targeted tissue. The pulsed electromagnetic energy reacts with tissue to create an acoustic pressure wave within th... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080086050 | MRI HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES, ENDORECTAL COIL Hyperthermia has been applied by, for example, separate ultrasound transducers, RF or microwave transmitters and heated fluids. Imaging by separate MRI imaging coils is usually used to view the anatomical region under treatment. Separate temperature probes (needles, cat... | 04/10/2008 |
| 20080077204 | Optical biofilm therapeutic treatment Optical therapeutic treatment devices, systems, apparatus, methods, and techniques are disclosed. Embodiments can include a housing extending along a central axis X, an elongated fiber guide coupled to the housing and adapted to receive an optical fiber having a proxima... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080077202 | Tissue Treatment Methods Methods are provided herein for affecting a region of a subject's body, comprising exposing the region to a cooling element under conditions effective to cool subcutaneous adipose tissue in said region; and increasing the blood flow rate to the cooled tissue by exposing... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080071334 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE TREATMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN KERATINIZED TISSUE Apparatus and methods for the treatment of keratinized tissue infected with a pathogen are provided. In certain examples, electromagnetic energy, such as microwave energy, may be used in the treatment process to reduce the amount of or eliminate the pathogen from the ke... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080071332 | DYNAMIC COOLING OF HUMAN SKIN USING A NONTOXIC CRYOGEN WITH NO OZONE DEPLETION AND MINIMAL GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL An improvement in a method for providing localized cooling of tissue when thermally mediated by electromagnetic radiation comprises directing at least one spurt of a heat transferring substance onto a selected location on the tissue, and preventing ignition of the heat ... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080046044 | Method and Apparatus to Provide Infrared Heating for an Animal The present invention includes an infrared heating device and method including a first infrared heating source connected to a base and a second infrared heating source connected adjustably to the first infrared heating source to provide infrared heating to an animal. ... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080039910 | Far infrared therapy unit with universal angle adjustment function A far infrared therapy unit with universal angle adjustment function includes a unit base, a universal flexible arm, which is height adjustable, and far infrared emitters. The far infrared emitters are pivotally connected to one another. One of the emitter is connected ... | 02/14/2008 |
