An apparatus for destroying cancer cells in blood includes a vessel for accepting a flow of blood of a patient through the vessel, and a sound energy source coupled with the vessel for generating sound energy at a resonant sweep frequency that causes cancer cells, within the flow of blood in the vessel, to act as cavitation nuclei and implode without implosion of other cells not resonant with the resonant sweep frequency. A method for destroying cancer cells in blood includes circulating blood from a patient through a vessel coupled with a sound energy source and exposing the blood, when passing through the vessel, to sound energy at a resonant sweep frequency to make cancer cells therein act as cavitation nuclei and implode without implosion of other cells not resonant with the resonant sweep frequency.

Provided herein are compositions with enhanced sweetness per weight when compared to the sweetener carbohydrate or sweetener polyol component thereof, and methods for the preparation thereof.

Methods, processes, apparatus, devices, kits and systems for crystallizing liquid to form slush inside of supercooled to below 32 F closed beverage bottles or cans, beverages in fountain dispensers, desserts, and food items by transmitting ultrasonic signals in short time spans, while allowing for optional illuminating the effects when the supercooled liquid is crystallized into slush.

A system for imploding leukemia cells of a patient includes (a) a first vessel for containing a volume of blood received from the patient, and (b) drive circuitry cooperatively coupled with at least one transducer to produce ultrasound energy that spatially decoheres and disperses throughout the volume, to implode the leukemia cells throughout the volume via absorption of the ultrasound energy by the leukemia cells. The transducer may be an immersible transducer configured to be immersed in the blood. The system may include a second vessel for containing a liquid, within which the ultrasound energy is decohered and dispersed and from which at least a portion of the ultrasound energy is transmitted to the first vessel to implode the leukemia cells.

Methods for extracting one or more compounds from a plant or fungal material feedstock include immersing the plant or fungal material feedstock in a liquid, subjecting the immersed plant or fungal material and/or the liquid to ultrasonic vibrations, and subsequently extracting one or more compounds from the plant or fungal material. Also disclosed are methods for treating one or more compounds extracted from a plant or fungal material feedstock. Such methods include providing the extracted compounds and a liquid to an emulsification vessel, subjecting the extracted compounds and the liquid to ultrasonic vibrations using a circulating agitator to create an emulsion of the extracted compounds and the liquid. The methods for extracting one or more compounds from a plant or fungal material feedstock and the methods for treating one or more compounds extracted from a plant or fungal material feedstock may be used separately or in conjunction with each other.

A method for producing a clean-tasting, neutral-color, concentrated, liquid protein base including separating fibrous material from the protein base. The method further includes applying ultrasonication to the protein base at an ultrasonication unit according to ultrasonication settings. The ultrasonication settings are adapted to cause acoustic cavitation within the protein base. The method further includes filtering the protein base through one or more membrane filters after separating the fibrous material from the protein base. The method further includes processing the protein base to form a protein ingredient. In certain cases, the method further includes processing the separated fibrous material to produce a dietary fiber. Processing the fibrous material includes converting gelatinized starch from the separated fibrous material into resistant starch.

Methods, processes, apparatus, devices, kits and systems for crystallizing liquid to form slush inside of supercooled to below 32 F closed beverage bottles or cans, beverages in fountain dispensers, desserts, and food items by transmitting ultrasonic signals in short time spans, while allowing for optional illuminating the effects when the supercooled liquid is crystallized into slush.

A method and a system for producing a change in a medium. The method places in a vicinity of the medium at least one energy modulation agent. The method applies an initiation energy to the medium. The initiation energy interacts with the energy modulation agent to directly or indirectly produce the change in the medium. The system includes an initiation energy source configured to apply an initiation energy to the medium to activate the energy modulation agent.

A method for processing a material, comprising propelling a bulk of material throughout an artificially generated storm, and rotationally impelling the bulk of material, thereby generating acoustic effects operative for processing of the material, where the acoustic effects comprise pressure gradients acoustically coupled to and resonating with the material with acoustic impedance matching, acoustic total internal reflections and acoustic absorbance adequate for different materials. The method is carried out by a duct-like vessel constructed for rotationally impelling a kinetically introduced material to generate the acoustic effects.

Provided is a method for preparing a vegetable oil emulsion including mixing water with a vegetable oil to provide a first mixture (a), and applying ultrasonic waves with a frequency of 25 to 70 kHz to the first mixture to solubilize the first mixture (b). Through treatment of ultrasonic waves with a certain frequency, the method for preparing a vegetable oil emulsion according to the present invention has advantages of significantly easily converting various herbal oils into aqueous emulsions at a high yield, significantly preventing layer-separation between oils and water for a long time, and being widely applicable to a variety of herbal oils.