133 results about "Treatment phases" patented technology

Multiple-variable dose methods for treating TNFα-related disorders, including Crohn's disease and psoriasis, comprising administering TNFα inhibitors, including TNFα antibodies, are described. Multiple-variable dose methods include administration of a TNF-inhibitor in an induction or loading phase followed by administration of the agent in a maintenance or treatment phase, wherein the TNF-inhibitor is administered in a higher dosage during the induction phase.

Appliances are made using a dental mold representing a patient's dental configuration. In particular, thermoformable plastic positioning appliances which fit over the patient's teeth may be formed over a three-dimensional mold of the patient's dentition. An apparatus and methods which employ a manipulable or reconfigurable mold to model patient dentition and gingiva at each stage of treatment. The apparatus and methods are particularly useful for performing midcourse corrections during orthodontic procedures using a plurality of such appliances in sequence.

The invention relates to a purified gas treatment process of a sulfur recovery device. The purified gas treatment process comprises a thermal reaction phase, a catalytic reaction phase and a tail gas purifying treatment phase, wherein in the tail gas purifying treatment phase, the Claus tail gas generated in the catalytic reaction phase is sequentially subjected to a hydrogenation reaction, cooling in a rapid quenching tower and amine liquid absorption, then the purified tail gas is fed to alkali liquor to be subjected to H2S removal treatment, and the tail gas removed from H2S is combusted and then discharged; the amine liquid amine-rich liquid absorbing H2S is fed to a regeneration tower to be regenerated, the regenerated acid gas is mixed with the acid gas, and then returned to the thermal reaction phase to further recover elemental sulfur; the exhausted lye removed from H2S is subjected to caustic dross biological treatment or acidic water stripping treatment. With adoption of the purified gas treatment process disclosed by the invention, H2S in the purified gas can be removed to 5 mg/m<3> below, the SO2 content in the smoke is obviously reduced within the reduction range of 100-1000 mg/m<3>; the exhausted lye treatment method is further provided, and the exhausted lye is subjected to the caustic dross biological treatment or the acidic water stripping treatment, so that pollution can be reduced.

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 discloses a method for deeply purifying and recovering hyperhaline fluoric-U radioactive waste solution. The method comprises three sequent treatment phases including pretreatment, enrichment and separation of U-F and recovery of U, and can be further finely divided into 7 treatment units, including lower temperature reduction separation, chemical sedimentation, film filtering, step-grade organism enrichment-film filtering separation or step ion exchange, deposit fluorine removal solid-liquid separation, microwave tower treatment and resource recovery of U; under the condition that the salinity of waste solution to be treated is 0.1-10%, the initial U concentration is 0.1-1000mg/L, and the fluorine concentration is 0.01-15g/L, after treatment, the concentration of U is not larger than 0.05mg/L, the concentration of the fluorine is not higher than 10mg/L, and the recovery rate of U is larger than 90%. The method for deeply purifying and recovering hyperhaline fluoric-U radioactive waste solution is suitable for treating hyperhaline fluoric-U radioactive waste solution and the resource recovery of radioactive U.

A dental implant management system/method that improves communication and coordination between parties associated with dental implant procedures is disclosed. The system/method operates to permit each dental implant professional (DIP) (typically a surgeon, restorative doctor, and dental laboratory) to iteratively generate a patient treatment execution plan (TEP) for the dental implant procedure that is generally structured within execution treatment phases (ETP) and automatically coordinated among each DIP. The ETP typically defines FOUNDATION, IMPLANT PLACEMENT, RESTORATIVE, and MAINTENANCE phases that may each incorporate custom execution phase checklists (EPC) that permit each DIP to ensure that critical elements of their TEP are properly executed. Coordination of the various DIP-generated TEPs is integrated with treatment planning/sequencing, patient scheduling, DIP fee estimation, and dental parts procurement to ensure maximum revenue to each DIP while simultaneously improving the probability of a successful dental implant procedure for the patient.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a titanium alloy having superelastic properties and/or shape memory for biomedical use, which comprises the steps of: preparing an ingot by melting the various metals that form the desired alloy in a vacuum; optionally homogenising the ingot in a vacuum by high-temperature annealing (higher than 900 DEG C); first quenching; mechanical shaping (rolling, drawing, machining or the like); heat treatment for redissolution in beta phase beyond the beta transus temperature (until a second temperature and then maintaining same for a certain time); and second quenching; characterised in that said heat treatment phase is carried out in a gaseous atmosphere and also constitutes a surface treatment suitable for forming on the surface a layer of nitride, carbonitride, oxide, oxynitride or the like.

A method of improving the visual perception ability of a person with respect to a particular eye condition of one or both eyes, by displaying to the person, in at least one evaluation session of an evaluation phase, a plurality of images selected to test the visual perception ability of the person with respect to at least one visual defect, and to elicit responses from the person indicative of the level of the person's visual perception ability with respect to the at least one visual defect; and by utilizing the responses to select another plurality of images designed to treat the person with respect to a detected visual defect and thereby to improve the visual perception ability of the person with respect to the detected visual defect; and, in a treatment phase, applying training glasses with reduced refraction for the respective eye, and displaying to the person the another plurality of images in at least one treatment session until the visual perception ability of the person has been improved with respect to the detected visual defect. The foregoing operations are performed until the desired “contrast funnel” is achieved, i.e., the desired range of contrast levels expected to be achieved in order to gain optimal visual improvement.

A method of treating sleep disorder breathing in a patient, the method comprising in a first step providing a set of oral appliances comprising a first and at least a second oral appliance (30). Each of the first and at least second oral appliances comprises a generally U shaped appliance body including an inner wall (34), an outer wall (36), and a web (38) interconnecting the inner wall and the outer wall. The web has a front section and two arms with trailing ends. The web comprises at least one breathing hole (80) so as to define a total cross sectional area for breathing and the total cross sectional area for breathing of the first oral appliance is larger than the total cross sectional area for breathing of the second oral appliance. In a second step, a patient wears the first oral appliance in a first treatment stage whilst sleeping for a first period of time and in a third step the patient wears the second oral appliance in a second treatment stage whilst sleeping for a second period of time.

An automated apparatus, method and system are provided for creating and communicating staffing assignments associated with a plurality of patients receiving treatment in multiple different areas within a healthcare facility and in association with multiple different phases of treatment. In particular, a centralized staff assignment application or module is provided, wherein a staff assignor may access the staff assignment application in order to identify, among other things: (1) staff members capable of facilitating treatment to patients within each area of the healthcare facility; (2) the roles each of those staff members is capable of performing; (3) the peri-operative phase associated with each phase; and (4) the patients scheduled to receive treatment in each of the areas in association with each of the phases. This information may thereafter be used to make staffing assignments, which may be communicated to individuals and applications throughout the healthcare facility.

To optimize an optical component of synthetic quartz glass, in the case of which a quartz glass blank is subjected to a multistage annealing treatment, with respect to compaction and central birefringence, the present invention suggests a method comprising the following steps:

• (a) a first treatment phase during which the quartz glass blank is treated in an upper temperature range between 1130° C. and 1240° C.,
• (b) cooling the quartz glass blank at a first-higher-mean cooling rate to a quenching temperature below 1100° C., a fictive temperature with a high mean value of 1100° C. or more being reached in the quartz glass,
• (c) a second treatment phase which comprises cooling of the quartz glass blank at a second-lower-mean cooling rate, and in which the quartz glass blank is treated in a lower temperature range between 950° C. and 1100° C. such that a fictive temperature is reached in the quartz glass with a low mean value which is at least 50° C. lower than the high mean value of the fictive temperature according to method step (b).

The invention discloses a technique for treating sewage water to reclaimed water and the device thereof, the technique of which includes the following phases: flocculation and dosing phase, fiber filter phase, water distribution phase, integrated module system treatment phase and wine blending phase. The device includes a pipe-line mixer with sequential connection in series, micro eddy flocculation reacting clarification tank, a high effective fabric filter tank, a middle water tank, the integrated module system and a clean water tank. The invention has the advantages that the desalinization of the reverse osmosis device is taken as center, sequentially takes micro eddy flocculation, high effective fabric filtration and ultrafiltration as pretreatment and arranges an original water adjusting tank on the end to secure the stable operation of the reverse osmosis device. Employing mixed water scheme to effectively reduce the manufacturing price and operation cost. The technique provides the technique and the device of the recycling of recirculated cooling sewage water of power plant, the outlet water is taken as the replenishing water of recirculated cooling system of the power plant. The process has the advantages of reasonable design, simple operation and stable work, all the indexes of the outlet water can satisfy the recycling need which has a guiding and referencing meaning for reclaimed water recycling system.

Apparatus for improving the visual perception ability of a person with respect to a particular eye condition of at least one eye, includes a client terminal including display device for displaying images to the person, and an input device for inputting responses by the person to images displayed in said display device; and a processor system programmed such that in an evaluation phase, the processor controls said display device to display to the person a plurality of images selected to test the visual perception ability of the person with respect to at least one visual defect, and utilizes responses inputted by the person via said input device to select another plurality of images designed to improve the visual perception ability of the person with respect to a detected visual defect; and in a treatment phase, the processor controls said display device to display to the person said another plurality of images to thereby improve the visual perception ability of the person with respect to said detected visual defect. The display device is a head-wearable display wearable over the eyes of said person and controlled by said processor system to display said plurality of images during both said evaluation phase and said treatment phase.

A monitor for surveying measurement values indicative of a person's breathing, to enable an improved assessment, in terms of conclusiveness and reliability, in the course of a treatment phase or a diagnosis. The monitor has a housing structure defining a gas flow path, a measurement line segment provided in the housing structure and structured to communicate with a breathing gas line segment, a sensor in communication with the gas flow path and structured to generate a signal indicative of the breathing gas flow flowing along the gas flow path, and an electronic recording device to record one or more signals indicative of the breathing gas flow, and/or information derived from them. It thus becomes advantageously possible, in treating a patient by using a CPAP device, for instance, to determine the quality of treatment in an objective and standardized way.

A device (13) is provided for use with a treatment device for treating a patient. The device (13) includes a detection device (17) for detecting at least one transition of the patient's treatment from a first phase of treatment to a second phase of treatment. A signal device (25) for sending at least one signal when the transition is detected. It proposes, furthermore, a workstation equipped herewith.

Methods and apparatus for the treatment of a body cavity or lumen are described where a heated fluid and/or gas may be introduced through a catheter and into treatment area within the body contained between one or more inflatable/expandable members. The catheter may also have optional pressure and temperature sensing elements which may allow for control of the pressure and temperature within the treatment zone and also prevent the pressure from exceeding a pressure of the inflatable/expandable members to thereby contain the treatment area between these inflatable/expandable members. Optionally, a chilled, room temperature, or warmed fluid such as water may then be used to rapidly terminate the treatment session.

The invention discloses a mud-water amphibious plate-inserting device for a soft foundation, which comprises a plate-inserting machine, wherein the plate-inserting machine is arranged on a track, and the track is arranged on a floating body; and the plate-inserting machine comprises a bracket, a plastic drain board conveying device, an inserting tube and a bidirectional driving device thereof. By using the mud-water amphibious plate-inserting device to carry out soft foundation treatment, the invention cancels the phase of paving geotextiles and wattles or the phase of temporarily consolidating the superficial layer of a manually-inserted drain board in the traditional process, and omits a fine sand bedding layer and a coarse sand filtering layer, thereby saving the temporary consolidation treatment phase in the treatment procedure and saving a great quantity of nonrenewable resources and a lot of money; after mud is subjected to hydraulic reclamation, the plate inserting operation can be performed under the condition that water is adhered to the mud, thereby greatly shortening the construction period; and meanwhile, because the plate-inserting depth can reach more than 20 meters, plates can be inserted in place in one-step operation. Thus, a lot of money can be saved by only omitting the fine sand bedding layer and the coarse sand filtering layer; and compared with the traditional process, the construction time is greatly shortened.

The present invention provides a manipulable or reconfigurable dental model system and methods for its use to model a series of tooth configurations corresponding to sequential tooth movements during an orthodontic treatment. When a patient undergoes orthodontic treatment, teeth and bite configurations are realigned in a series of stages. Each stage represents a new pattern or dental configuration that will eventually lead to a proper final positioning of the entire dentition. Progress from the initial configuration, through the intermediate stages and finally to the final configuration may be accomplished using any one or a combination of different dental appliances. Of particular interest to the present invention, many of these appliances may be made using a dental mold representing the patient's dental configuration. In particular, thermoformable plastic positioning appliances which fit over the patient's teeth may be formed over a three-dimensional mold of the patient's dentition. When successive appliances are used throughout treatment to reposition the teeth from initial to final configuration, a new mold has typically been produced to fabricate the appliance for each stage. The present invention provides an apparatus and methods which employ a manipulable or reconfigurable mold to model patient dentition and gingiva at each stage of treatment.

An apparatus for treating a particulate material, in particular for mixing, drying, granulating, pelletizing and/or coating the material, has a container which has a process chamber arranged around a longitudinal mid-axis of the container and formed as an annular chamber, and also a container central duct, separated from the process chamber, as a flow duct for process air, which duct opens into the lower region of the process chamber, an upper region of the process chamber being open. In at least one first operating state, the upper open region of the process chamber communicates with the container central duct so as to conduct process air, by the container central duct widening circumferentially towards the upper region of the process chamber and opening towards the process chamber. In a method for treating particulate material, the material is put into the container, and process air is introduced from the container central duct into the lower region of the process chamber and flows upwards in the process chamber in order to move the material in the process chamber. The process air emerges from the process chamber again from the upper region of the latter, the process air, at least in a first treatment phase, after emerging from the upper region of the process chamber, being led at least partly into the container central duct in a continued circulation-type flow and there being led downwards again, where it is introduced into the process chamber once more.

The invention relates to the field of semi-coke wastewater treatment, in particular to a semi-coke wastewater treatment method. The method comprises a pretreatment phase and a biochemical treatment phase, wherein the pretreatment phase comprises the following steps of enabling semi-coke wastewater to be successively subjected to oil removing treatment, acid stripping treatment, deamination treatment and dephenolization treatment to obtain pretreated wastewater, wherein the acid stripping treatment is performed in an acid stripping tower, the deamination treatment is performed in a deaminationtower, and the dephenolization treatment is performed in a carbolic oil extraction tower; the biochemical treatment phase comprises the following steps of enabling the pretreated wastewater to successively pass through a hydrolysis acidification pool, a biochemical reaction pool, a settling pool, a coagulative precipitation pool and a film treatment device to obtain dialysis water and concentratedwater, wherein the dialysis water enters a cooling segment of a vertical carbonization furnace, and the concentrated water enters a preheating segment of the vertical carbonization furnace. The acidstripping tower, the deamination tower and the carbolic oil extraction tower jointly cooperate with another process in a specific process condition, so that the semi-coke wastewater can be recycled for quenching coke, the quality of an obtained semi-coke product meets a standard, the cycle use of the semi-coke wastewater is realized, and the environmental pollution is reduced.