An arthritis treatment apparatus including: a treatment part coming into close contact with a patient's skin to transmit far-infrared rays and ultrasonic waves to a deep portion of a joint; and a body for adjusting an internal pressure and ultrasonic wave outputs of the treatment part, wherein the treatment part includes: a heat generating element for transmitting the far-infrared rays to the deep portion of the joint; ultrasonic wave generating elements for transmitting the ultrasonic waves to the deep portion of the joint; and a vacuum chamber configured to locate the heat generating element and the ultrasonic wave generating elements at an interior thereof and to allow the heat generating element and the ultrasonic wave generating elements to come into close contact with the patient's skin.

The subject matter of the present disclosure generally relates to techniques for following a treatment protocol having one or more treatment parameters to cause a targeted physiological outcome at a distal site, assessing an expression level of a gene in a region of interest after completing the treatment protocol, and modifying the one or more treatment parameters based on the expression level of the gene. The treatment protocol may include one or more ultrasound energy treatments to the region of interest.

A method of treating a patient having cancer cells has the step of directing sound energy from one or more acoustic shock wave or pressure pulse treatments into the patient targeting the cancer cells in at least one tumor or in the blood to cause the patient’s immune system to identify the cancer cells as foreign objects and trigger a natural healing mechanism of the patient’s immune system to destroy the foreign objects. Wherein targeting the at least one tumor initiates cellular communication resulting in an unmasking of all cancer cells in the patient’s body by destroying a cloaking capability of the cancer cells which made the cancer cells indistinguishable from normal cells allowing the cancer cells to hide from the immune system prior to the one or more acoustic shock wave or pressure pulse treatments.

An anti-tumor agent is provided to a patient to increase a susceptibility of a tumor within the patient to harmonic excitation. Ultrasonic transducers of a wearable are driven to direct a therapeutic ultrasound signal into tissue of the patient. The therapeutic ultrasound signal has a resonant ultrasound frequency to harmonically excite and damage the tumor while the anti-tumor agent has increased the susceptibility of the tumor to the harmonic excitation of the therapeutic ultrasound signal.

A portable device for the decontamination of a breast. The aim of the device is to reduce the risk of mastitis, even when the patient has a medicament incompatibility. For this purpose, the invention includes a decontamination unit which decontaminates the breast at least by means of a physical method.

The disclosure describes imaging and therapy techniques comprising nanodroplets. More particularly, aspects of the disclosure relate to the use of nanodroplets to modify nanobubbles or microbubbles to provide improved imaging and/or therapeutic techniques and compositions.

The present disclosure provides an extracorporeal focused ultrasound treatment device for a pelvic disease. The treatment device includes an ultrasonic transducer and a treatment couch. Sound emitting surface of the ultrasonic transducer is a spherical surface having a first notch, a second notch and a third notch, the first notch and the second notch are respectively positioned at two intersections of the spherical surface and a diameter perpendicular to the main great circle, and the third notch connects the first notch with the second notch; a cross-section of the sound emitting surface parallel to the main great circle is in a shape of an arc; and an ultrasonic wave generated by the sound generation unit is focused at a center of the sphere corresponding to the sound emitting surface. The treatment couch is configured for a human body to lie in a lithotomy position.

The present invention features devices, systems, and methods of use thereof for delivering therapeutic or sterilizing ultraviolet (UV) radiation, such as UVC or UVA radiation.

Techniques are provided for detection and treatment of tumors using ultrasound. An early detection test may be performed on a patient. A location of a tumor may be determined based on the early detection test. Properties of the tumor may be determined based on the early detection test. Moieties may be functionalized based on the properties of the tumor. The moieties maybe introduced into the patient. The location of the tumor may be imaged using ultrasound, magnetic resonance elastography, or computed tomography to generate images of the location of the tumor. A treatment plan based on the images of the location of the tumor may be implemented using ultrasound.

An acoustic technique designed to increase the gas-dissolution rate of a bubble in a liquid media is proposed. Increased gas-dissolution rate is achieved by increasing the bubble's surface-to-volume ratio via bubble fragmentation. This is achieved by attaching an electroacoustic transducer to the system or load in which bubbles travel and exciting the transducer at the frequency of resonance. The electric resonance of the transducer attached to the system corresponds in frequency to the mechanical resonance of the system or load which allows for achieving such state without the use of an internally placed hydrophone to certify the resonance state. The acoustic bubble fragmentation technique increased the dissolution rate 4 to 5 times of bubbles with initial diameters between 150 and 550 μm in distilled water and in medical grade saline solution.