330 results about "Ultrasound Radiation" patented technology

An ultrasound oral hygiene and therapeutic device comprises an array of ultrasonic transducers, a power generator, and a filling element. The ultrasonic transducer array, with optional radiation plates and reflection plates, produce uniform ultrasound radiation on each surface desirable to be treated by ultrasound radiation. The soft and resilient filling element snugly fits into a user's oral cavity, confines cleaning solution and the ultrasound action within a limited ultrasound action zone surrounding the surfaces desirable to be treated, and protects all other parts of the oral cavity from ultrasound radiation. The device provides superior, uniform, and consistent cleaning results in a short time. In particular, it cleans the entire dental surface, including the inter-dental and gingival areas. It is extremely easy to use, quiet, durable, energy efficient, and inexpensive in long run.

Provided are three-dimensional air touch feedback apparatus and method for a mobile apparatus. The present invention provides an air touch feedback apparatus, including: a display unit which outputs a 3D floating image; a touch detecting unit which is disposed at a side edge of a display unit and includes a plurality of sensors to detect a body of a user and receives position information on at least one image object of the 3D floating image from the display unit to determine an air touch position where the body of the user is in contact with the image object; and a feedback providing unit which receives air touch position information from the touch detecting unit and radiates an ultrasonic wave to the air touch position at the side edge of the display unit.

The method and device of the present invention for wound treatment with ultrasound standing waves includes a transducer probe to produce ultrasonic waves. The ultrasonic transducer has a tip with a distal radiation surface that radiates ultrasound energy toward the surface of a wound. Ultrasound standing waves occurring as a result of incident and reflected waves from the wound surface create ultrasonic radiation pressure. Ultrasound radiation pressure increases the blood flow in wound area, and ultrasound waves kill bacteria, stimulate healthy tissue cell and treat wounds.

Disclosed is a method of treatment of soft tissue where at least two ultrasound transducers are applied to a tissue protrusion and operated to emit the protrusion ultrasound radiation in pulse or continuous operation mode. At least one of the transducers receives a portion of the ultrasound power emitted by the other transducer and transmitted through the protrusion. A controller analyzes the received portion of the ultrasound and employs the data for actively monitoring the ultrasound radiation with tissue coupling. Disclosed is also an apparatus enabling implementation of the method.

An ultrasound reactor (30) having a reactor body (1), a reactor tube (9) disposed within the reactor body and a magnetostrictor transducer (11) comprising at least one annular element (28a-d) concentric with, and mounted to an external wall of said tube and a process for ultrasonic treatment of a reaction material are disclosed. The transducer is mounted on the reactor tube in such a way so as to transmit ultrasound radiation to the interior of the tube and to induce an upwardly flowing cavitation stream whose longitudinal axis substantially coincides with a longitudinal axis of said tube, causing physical changes to the reaction material.

A method for measuring in non-invasive manner the concentration of blood constituents by which backscattered light is measured under the action of ultrasonic radiation focused towards the inside of a central blood vessel. A light source and detection unit are arranged to detect the backscattered light on the skin surface above the blood vessel. The target tissue is illuminated by two discrete optical wavelengths. An average light intensity distribution is detected over the length of a pulse. The distribution is Fournier transformed, and the largest Fournier components and spectral position are determined in relation to the frequency of the ultrasonic radiation. The component concentration in the blood vessel is calculated taking into account the volume of the ultrasonic focus contributing to the signal and blood flow rate.

The invention provides a system and method for limited view ultrasound imaging of a 2D section or a 3D volume of a body part. Ultrasound sensors configured are spatially or temporally arrayed in a limited view circular arc or over at least part of a concave surface such as a hemisphere. A processor calculates from detected ultrasound radiation a beam forming (BF) functional and calculates from the free amplitudes a point spread function (PSF). A filter g(k) is calculated from the Fourier transform H_BF(k) of the PSF that is used to generate an image of the 2D section or the 3D volume of the body part.

Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for permeabilizing fetal membranes including an active ingredient having a log K in the range of 2 to 4, where K is the octanol/water partition coefficient. The active ingredient may be, for example, bupivacaine, sodium lauryl sulfate or oleic acid. Further provided is a system for transfetal membrane transport. The system includes a probe unit adapted for insertion into a female reproductive tract and releasing a substance onto fetal membranes that permeabilizes the membranes. The system is also configured to apply ultrasound radiation to the fetal membranes to further increase the membrane permeability.

The invention relates to a catalytic electrolysis coupling reactor which is suitable for treating various organic wastewater, especially organic wastewater difficult to be bio-degraded. The reactor consists essentially of an iron internal electrolytic layer, an ultrasonic irradiation layer and a three-dimensional electrode oxidation layer which are coupled and connected in series from bottom to top; water treatment technologies such as traditional internal electrolysis, ultrasonic wave and an electricity-Fenton method are coupled to treat the organic wastewater difficult to be bio-degraded soas to lead the organic wastewater to stably reach standard; and the catalytic electrolysis coupling reactor not only can be applicable to pretreatment of various organic wastewater which has high concentration and is difficult to be bio-degraded so as to greatly reduce the concentration of organic pollutants and improve the biodegradability of the wastewater, but also can be applicable to main treatment units for wastewater with small volume of flow so as to lead the treated wastewater to directly reach the standard and be discharged.

An apparatus for performing in-vivo sonoporation of a skin area and transdermal and/or intradermal delivery of a drug solution includes a container having an end adjacent the skin area and containing the drug solution. The container further includes an ultrasound horn having a tip submerged in the drug solution for applying ultrasound radiation to the drug solution. The ultrasound radiation has a frequency in the range of 15 KHz and 1 MHz and is applied at an intensity, for a period of time and at a distance from said skin area effective to generate cavitation bubbles. The cavitation bubbles collapse and transfer their energy into the skin area, thus causing the formation of pores in the skin area. The ultrasound radiation intensity and distance from the skin area are also effective in generating ultrasonic jets, which ultrasonic jets then drive the drug solution through the end adjacent the skin area and the formed pores into the skin.

The invention involves a load palladium amorphous alloy catalyst used for nitrophenol hydrogenation and preparation method and belongs to catalyst technology field. Said catalyst uses NaY, MCM-41, molecular screen, Al2O3, TiO2, SiO2 or MgO as carrier, and is loaded with Pd-B amorphous alloy, the quality of Pd is 0.1-0.5% of toatl quality of catalyst. The preparation process includes ultrasonic dispersion, vacuum impregnation, KBH4 chemical reduction under vacuum conditions, filtration and washing of carriers; it is characterized by introducing vacuum and ultrasonic radiation conditions. The advantages of the invention lies in its high activity of catalyst, low preparation cost and simple preparation process, it could widely apply to the preparation of p-aminophenol through nitrophenol catalysis and hydrogenation.

The invention relates to a method for extracting pectin from pineapple peels assisted by ultrasonic waves, which is characterized by comprising the following steps of: carrying out processing procedures of washing, boiling, rinsing, pressing and dewatering and the like on discarded pineapple peels, mixing with a water solution with the pH value of 1.0-6.0 and placing into an ultrasonic wave container, controlling a material liquid ratio to be 1:3-30 and the temperature to be 25-100 DEG C, and reacting under the action of ultrasonic wave radiations with frequency of 20-40 kHz; and after completing the reaction, carrying out processes of decoloring through active carbon, concentrating, ethanol-precipitating and vacuum drying and the like to obtain the pectin. The invention can shorten the extraction time of the pectin through the impact effect of the ultrasonic wave on cell walls of the pineapple peels and improve the yield of the pectin.

Radiation treatment is delivered to a patient by positioning the patient such that a radiation beam is delivered to a lesion within the patient along a beam-delivery path while securing a diagnostic imaging device about the patient such that the diagnostic imaging device does not intersect the beam-delivery path. Radiation therapy is simultaneously delivered along the beam-delivery path while diagnostic images are obtained using the imaging device.

Ultrasound surgical apparatus are disclosed, including: medical ultrasound handpieces with proximally mounted ultrasound radiators configured to create a distally-focused beam of ultrasound energy, in combination with distal guide members for control of focal point depth; medical ultrasound handpieces with proximally mounted ultrasound radiators configured to create a distally-focused beam of ultrasound energy, in combination with distal rolling members for manipulability and control of focal point depth; medical ultrasound handpiece assemblies with coupled end effectors providing a probe with a probe dilation region configured to have an average outside diameter that is equal to or greater than the average outside diameter of a probe tip and neck; as well as junctions to an ultrasonically inactive probe sheath; medical ultrasound handpiece assemblies with coupled end effectors having positionable, ultrasonically inactive probe sheath ends slidably operable to both cover and expose at least a probe tip; and ultrasound transducer cores including a transducing structure affixed to a longitudinally elongated, generally planar, single crystal or polycrystalline material waveguide.

A method for measuring variations of the surface of an object using acoustic energy in the audio range is provided. Imaging fine surface roughness on the order of few microns is achievable by using a vibroacoustography technique. This technique provides a method for imaging surface roughness on the basis of an ultrasound radiation force that stimulates acoustic emissions at an ultrasound standing wave field. The present invention may be employed as a tool for the nondestructive inspection and imaging of the surface variations of an object.