132 results about "Treatment duration" patented technology

The system of remotely controlling the medical laser generator unit through a portable computing device such as a smart phone or a tablet personal computer allows the user to control the properties of the medical laser with a downloadable software application. The portable computing device and the medical laser generator unit communicate with each other through a network connection, which can be either a hard-wired link or a wireless link. The properties of the medical laser that can be controlled by the software application include emission power, pulse structure, and treatment duration. The software application is also able to retrieve feedback data from the patient during a medical procedure. The feedback data includes tissue color, tissue temperature, and a laser plume signature. The software application also allows the user to access each individual patient's medical information so that the user can better perform the medical procedure.

A method and system for treating dysphagia using electrical stimulation of a human's or animals's vagus nerve, or recurrent laryngeal nerve, or both to cause glottic or vocal fold motion in humans or animals. Stimulation is caused by utilizing a power source; an external controller for generating and providing an output signal having a given intensity, frequency, and pulse duration; an output protector circuit for limiting the intensity of the output signal; a treatment duration circuit for controlling the duration of operation of the external controller, a ramp control circuit for controlling the intensity of the output signal; and a monitor portion for displaying operating parameters of the device. The external controller regulates the intensity, the frequency, and the pulse duration of the output signal in accordance with a procedure for treating dysphagia.

A noninvasive method and apparatus for treating living tissue with pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMFs) having selectively reduced high-frequency signal components, with improved bioresponse provided by magnetic field amplitudes less than approximately 40 μT, and most preferably in the range of 4–10 μT. Such amplitude levels for the disclosed PEMF signal are particularly effective with a treatment duration in the range of 0.25–2 hours/day.

A comparative orthodontic treatment planning tool that can provide multiple treatment plan options based on a single initial tooth data set. A user can use the treatment planning tool to select a treatment plan based on factors, including cost, treatment duration, treatment complexity, and material or feature selection. Tooth arrangements at different treatment stages can be compared. In some cases, a tooth arrangement at one treatment stage can be superimposed over a tooth arrangement at a different treatment stage or over a tooth arrangement from a different treatment plan.

The invention relates to a device and a method for treating tumors through irreversible electroporation, belonging to the technical field of tumor treatment. The device mainly comprises a square wave pulse generation and measurement system, a signal conversion system, a man-machine communication system, a measurement control system and a power supply system. In the method, the device and a therapeutic electrode are used for treating the tumors through a program. Under the circumstance of no injection of chemotherapeutic drugs, microsecond square wave pulses are applied to tumor tissues, the entire tumor cell is fully damaged, so that the tumor cell dies due to irreversible electroporation, and the harm on the body of a patient caused by the side effect of the chemotherapeutic drugs is radically avoided. The invention has the characteristics of short treatment time, no pain, good treatment effect, high safety, convenient use, simple operation, convenient popularization and application and the like. The device and the method can be widely used for treating the tumors of human and animals, and are especially applicable to human tumor treatment.

A selectively loadable/sealable bioresorbable carrier assembly for retaining and positioning elements used in brachytherapy procedures comprises a bioresorbable tube having a closed distal end and a proximal open end. The bioresorbable tube is loaded with a selectable arrangement of elements, including at least one radioactive seed, through the proximal open end. After the bioresorbable tube is selectably loaded, the bioresorbable tube is heat sealed at a sealing position adjacent a proximalmost element. Once sealed, the bioresorbable tube maintains the arrangement of elements throughout the treatment duration.

Drugs for treating dysmenorrheal belong to the field of traditional Chinese medicines. Aiming at the basic causes of dysmenorrheal that stagnation causes pains as well as cold stagnation and blocks are caused, the drugs adopt the Chinese medicine theories to seek the basic causes when treating diseases and achieve the effects of warming a uterus and relieving pains at the same time so as to treat dysmenorrheal. The drugs are prepared from the following effective constituents by weight portion: syzygium aromaticum, Chinese cinnamon, angelica, evodia rutaecarpa, wild gingers, rhizoma corydalis, szechuan lovage rhizome, safflowers and mugwort leaves. The drugs are simple to prepare, and have the advantages of low price, good curative effect, no toxic and side effects, short treatment time and good social and economic benefits. A plurality of drugs can achieve compatibility; in addition, the drugs aim at the basic causes of dysmenorrheal that stagnation causes pains as well as cold stagnation and blocks are caused, can seek the basic causes when treating diseases, and can achieve the curative effects of warming the uterus and relieving pains at the same time.

The invention discloses a plank surface carbonization treatment technology and belongs to the field of wood processing. The technology specifically comprises the steps of 1, plank cutting; 2, plank pre-drying; 3, secondary drying; 4, carbonization; 5, thermal refining. The steps are reasonably matched, cracking of wood during processing can be avoided, and a finished product obtained after processing has high anti-cracking property which is lower than that of conventional planks by only 8% or less, while the anti-cracking property is reduced by 40% or so when a traditional treatment method is adopted. Furthermore, according to the technology, treatment duration is shortened by 30-35%, efficiency is higher, and therefore popularization value is high.

The invention discloses a burn and scald medicine and a preparation method thereof. 100 to 150 portions of calcium oxide prepared from the following components in portion by weight and 400 to 1,500 portions of water are prepared into an aqueous solution, the aqueous solution is stirred, precipitated, clarified and deslagged, and a clear water layer of the aqueous solution is added with borneol which accounts for 0.05 to 0.1 percent of the weight of the aqueous solution and fully stirred and mixed to obtain the medicine. The medicine has the advantages of simple, convenient and quick treatment and use, easily obtained raw materials, short treatment time, quick wound healing, and low treatment cost, and is particularly popular in broad rural patients.

The invention provides a non-invasive skin treatment device (100) comprising an r.f. treatment electrode (10); a return electrode (40); an r.f. generator (20) configured and arranged such that, during treatment, an r.f. treatment signal is applied between the r.f. treatment electrode (10) and the return electrode (40) for heating an inner region (15) of skin; an impedance measurement circuit (35) configured and arranged to measure, before treatment of the inner region, an initial skin impedance (Z_o) between the r.f. treatment electrode (10) and the return electrode (40); and a treatment settings determiner (30) configured and arranged to determine, before treatment of the inner region (15), treatment settings associated with the r.f. treatment signal depending on the initial skin impedance (Z_o) and on a dimension of the r.f. treatment electrode (10) in the contact plane, the treatment settings comprising at least one of a treatment duration (T_D) associated with a desired treatment result, and an r.f. electrical parameter associated with the r.f. treatment signal. The skin treatment device (100) further comprises a controller (25) configured and arranged to consecutively activate the impedance measurement circuit (35) and the treatment settings determiner (30) before treatment of the inner region (15), configure the r.f. generator (20) to provide the r.f. treatment signal according to the treatment settings, and activate the r.f. generator (20) to apply the r.f. treatment signal to the inner region (15) for the treatment duration (T_D). The invention is based on the insight obtained from multiple measurements made during the creation of microscopic thermal lesions in an inner region of skin by applying r.f. measurement and treatment signals. By analyzing the histological and heating results, a relationship was obtained between the initial impedance (Z_o), the dimension of the r.f. treatment electrode (10), and the treatment settings required to obtain a particular skin treatment result. This relationship has been found to be relatively constant for different subjects, different treatment locations on the body and different skin moisture contents. The invention makes it possible to preset or predetermine, i.e. in advance, the treatment duration (T_D) and/or the r.f. electrical parameters associated with the r.f. treatment signal accurately enough to avoid undesired skin damage during the treatment. The device can be simpler, as it is no longer essential to continuously monitor the impedance during treatment to determine the onset of undesired skin damage, such as ablation, which is the safety feature known from conventional devices.

The invention provides a radio-frequency electrode treatment catheter and a radio-frequency electrode treatment device. The radio-frequency electrode treatment catheter comprises a catheter and at least one group of radio-frequency electrodes, wherein one or more groups of radio-frequency electrodes are arranged on the catheter, each group of radio-frequency electrodes comprises a plurality of first radio-frequency electrode units and second radio-frequency electrode units corresponding to each other, each of the first radio-frequency electrode units and the second radio-frequency electrode units is alternately arranged on the surface of the catheter at intervals along at least one direction, and radio-frequency power supplies applied by the first radio-frequency electrode units and the second radio-frequency electrode units are opposite in polarity. The treatment catheter for treating vascular diseases is improved, the electric conduction situation between different radio-frequency electrodes is avoided, a better curative effect can be achieved in the vascular disease treatment process, the treatment duration is prolonged by virtue of ingenious interval, and then the convenience in treatment is improved.

A non-invasive apparatus for dynamic motion therapy in a weightless environment include a vibration table having a non-rigidly supported platform for generating resonant vibration and for externally transferring vibrations to the musculoskeletal system, and ankle belts or other securing means to secure a person to the vibration table. The method of providing dynamic motion therapy to a person in a weightless environment includes the steps of (a) providing a vibration table having a non-rigidly supported platform; (b) securing the person to the non-rigidly supported platform; (c) subjecting the person to resonant vibrations generated by the non-rigidly supported platform; and (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) during a predetermined treatment duration. The predetermined treatment duration is at least the duration of the weightless environment.

The invention discloses a deep carbonation method for a thick and heavy wood plate and belongs to the technical field of wood processing. The method specifically comprises steps as follows: (1) cutting of the wood plate; (2) pre-drying treatment of the wood plate; (3) deep drying treatment; (4) carbonation treatment; (5) tempering treatment. All the steps of the method are reasonably matched, the cracking resistance and the bending resistance of the wood plate can be well improved, can be 8% and 5% lower than those of a conventional wood plate respectively and are about 40% and 20% lower than those of the wood plate treated with a traditional method, the method has the remarkable improving effect, meanwhile, the whole treatment duration of the technology is shortened by 30%-40%, the efficiency is higher, and the method has the high popularization value.

A method to form a titanium nitride (TiN) hard mask in the Damascene process of forming interconnects during the fabrication of a semiconductor device, while the type and magnitude of stress carried by the TiN hard mask is controlled. The TiN hard mask is formed in a multi-layered structure where each sub-layer is formed successively by repeating a cycle of processes comprising TiN and chlorine PECVD deposition, and N₂/H₂ plasma gas treatment. During its formation, the stress to be carried by the TiN hard mask is controlled by controlling the number of TiN sub-layers and the plasma gas treatment duration such that the stress may counter-balance predetermined external stress anticipated on a conventionally made TiN hard mask, which causes trench sidewall distortion, trench opening shrinkage, and gap filling problem.

The invention discloses a medical fixing device for leg fracture. The medical fixing device comprises a fixing machine body, wherein a fixing treatment cavity which is through in the front-back direction is formed in the fixing machine body; a switch cavity with an upward opening is formed in the upper wall in the fixing treatment cavity in a communicating manner; a switch supporting shaft with atorsional spring inside is rotatably arranged on the right side between the front wall and the rear wall in the switch cavity; and the left side of the end surface of the outer circle of the switch supporting shaft is fixedly connected with a switch closing plate. Two sides of a leg of a patient are stably clamped in a size-adaptive manner, the effect of high treatment efficiency of the leg of thepatient is achieved, the device is fixed on the ground through a stable supporting plate, the movement vibration degree of the device is reduced to the minimum, the effect of high treatment precisionof the leg of the patient is achieved, then the surface of the leg of the patient is prepared before treatment by repeatedly spraying disinfectant, the medical efficiency is high, and the treatment time of the patient is short.

The invention relates to a Chinese medicine, and in particular relates to a Chinese medicine for treating lumbar disc herniation and hyperosteogeny and a use method of the Chinese medicine. The Chinese medicine is composed of rhizoma zingiberis, rhizoma typhonii, job's tears, codonopsis pilosula, radix aucklandiae, lovage, divaricate saposhnikovia root, cynanchum paniculatum, eucommia ulmoides oliv, radix morindae officinalis, fructus psoraleae, safflower, angelica, rhizoma curculiginis and epimedium herb. The raw materials are immersed with rice wine for 10-20 days. The Chinese medicine for treating lumbar disc herniation and hyperosteogeny disclosed by the invention has the advantages that treatment effect is quick, treatment and use are convenient, the Chinese medicine is safe in treatment duration, a patient does not need to hardly take medicine, and the Chinese medicine can be prevented from being rejected by other medicines during treatment. By treating lumbar disc herniation and hyperosteogeny with the medicine and corresponding usage, the curing time is shorted by half than that of internal treatment and good effect is immediately taken when attacking. The disease development of the patients who need surgeries because of lumbar disc herniation is greatly slowed by using the therapy for 3-5 days, the pain is practically disappeared for 10 days, the pain condition of nerve drawing of the patients is diminished for 20 days, and the patients are basically recovered for 30 days. Thus, the recovery rate reaches more than 95%.