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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4672951 | Method and apparatus for treatment of biological tissue The treatment of biological tissue is effected by a pulsed electric field induced by a time changing magnetic field produced by a magnetic coil or a plurality of magnetic coils. These magnetic coils are arranged in the area of desired treatment and respon... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4665898 | Malignancy treatment A body part of an animal afflicted with malignant cells is disposed within a magnetic coil and subjected to a plurality of magnetic field pulses, the pulses having intensities of between about 1 and about 100 Tesla and characteristic frequencies of betwee... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4654574 | Apparatus for reactively applying electrical energy pulses to a living body A device for therapeutic treatment of cells and tissues in a living body by non-invasively applying a developed field of pulsating electrical energy to a body site to stimulate repair or growth of bone structure at the body site containing electronic coun... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4561426 | Magnetic biological device An electromagnetic device for modifying any of the growth, repair or maintenance processes in a predetermined local area of a living body by utilizing a signal having a symmetric waveform to excite a coil and thereby induce a magnetic field and at the sam... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4556051 | Method and apparatus for healing tissue An apparatus and method for promoting healing of injured tissue, such as fractured bone, with interacting electric current and a magnetic flux field. Electrodes are adhesively attached to the skin adjacent the injured tissue. One or more coil assemblies n... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4550714 | Electromagnetic coil insert for an orthopedic cast or the like The invention contemplates integration of electrical componentry into an orthopedic cast, using one or more multiple-twin coils which are essentially flat and thin and flexibly conformable to local curvature of the limb or other body feature to be subject... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4548208 | Automatic adjusting induction coil treatment device An apparatus for treating a patient which induces an electric current in the body through external application of an electromagnetic field. The apparatus includes means for controlling the magnitude of the induced electric current by sensing the electroma... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4510925 | Method and apparatus for treating a living body The present invention relates, on the one hand, to a therapeutic method consisting in transmitting magnetic signals to a living substratum or body which signals have informational significance compatible with the informational organization and the automat... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4501265 | Applicator head for electromagnetic treatment of an afflicted body region The invention contemplates a specific coil configuration adapted for application to particular regions of the body, for use in treating a selected such region with pulsed electromagnetic signals which are induced within the body as electric voltage and co... | 02/26/1985 |
| 4456001 | Apparatus for equine hoof treatment The invention contemplates a boot removably adapted for attachment to an engine hoof and carrying at least one multi-turn electrical coil which effectively surrounds at least the bottom of the hoof. A pulse generator and power source are self-contained in... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4454883 | Electrotherapeutic apparatus The present invention concerns electrotherapeutic apparatus for generating and applying to a patient's body a pulsed high frequency predominently electrical field and for generating and applying to the patient a pulsed magnetic field independent from the ... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4428366 | Electromagnetic apparatus and method for the reduction of serum glucose levels Apparatus and a non-invasive technique are disclosed for the control of glucose levels in living animals afflicted with hyperglycemia. The apparatus is used to apply a uniform, monopolar pulsed magnetic field to cause electric currents and field generatio... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4369345 | Method of and apparatus for selective localized differential hyperthermia of a medium Apparatus generates a pulsed, alternating magnetic field which is coupled to magnetizable particles of submicron size dispersed in colloidal suspension in a medium. The frequency of the applied magnetic field is related to the size of the particles in suc... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4359453 | Atherosclerosis treatment method A treatment of atherosclerosis by the application of external electromagnetic energy capable of the generation of heat and biophysical alterations in intracellular particles and particles within atherosclerotic plaques to induce resolution of the atherosc... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4315503 | Modification of the growth, repair and maintenance behavior of living tissues and cells by a specific and selective change in electrical environment Surgically non-invasive method of and apparatus for altering the growth, repair and maintenance behavior of living tissues and/or cells by inducing voltage and concomitant current pulses of specific time-frequency-amplitude relations therewithin.... | 02/16/1982 |
| 4303636 | Cancer treatment A treatment of cancer by the application of external electromagnetic energy capable of the generation of heat in intracellular particles to induce selective thermal death of cancer cells in living tissue. This process allows for the selective treatment of... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4293961 | Pulsatile flow cardiopulmonary bypass pump A pulsatile flow cardiopulmonary bypass pump for use outside of the body during cardiac surgery and/or in the period immediately thereafter is disclosed. A grooved spinner is motor driven through a fluid coupling which enables idling of the spinner during... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4266533 | Modification of the growth, repair and maintenance behavior of living tissues and cells by a specific and selective change in electrical environment Surgically non-invasive method of and apparatus for altering the growth, repair and maintenance behavior of living tissues and/or cells by inducing voltage and concomitant current pulses of specific time-frequency-amplitude relations therewithin.... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4266532 | Modification of the growth, repair and maintenance behavior of living tissues and cells by a specific and selective change in electrical environment Surgically non-invasive method of and apparatus for altering the growth, repair and maintenance behavior of living tissues and/or cells by inducing voltage and concomitant current pulses of specific time-frequency-amplitude relations therewithin.... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4233965 | Method and apparatus for the therapeutic treatment of living tissue Disclosed herein is a method and device for the therapeutic treatment of living tissue to assist in the healing of biological traumas and providing treatment of conditions such as arthritis. Positive square wave current pulses are applied between two elec... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4105017 | Modification of the growth repair and maintenance behavior of living tissue and cells by a specific and selective change in electrical environment Surgically non-invasive method of and apparatus for altering the growth, repair of maintenance behavior of living tissues and/or cells by inducing voltage and concomitant current pulses of specific time-frequency - amplitude relations therewithin.... | 08/08/1978 |
