Therapeutic system
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorsNorihiko Hareyama, Toru Nagase, Shinji Hatta
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Abstract
A therapeutic system comprising a therapeutic applicator for treating living tissues and an observation unit for determining the position of the applicator. The therapeutic energy applied from the applicator to the living tissues is controlled in accordance with data representing the position of the applicator, determined by the observation unit. It is therefore easy to operate the system even if the applicator and the observation unit (e.g., an MRI apparatus) are used at the same time. The image of the living tissues remains clear during the use of the therapeutic applicator.
Claims51
A therapeutic system comprising:
- a therapeutic applicator adapted to be inserted into a body cavity, for applying therapeutic energy to treat living tissues present in the body cavity;
- observation means for indicating a position which the therapeutic applicator takes in the body cavity;
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- control means for controlling the therapeutic energy applied from the therapeutic applicator to the living tissues, on the basis of data representing the position which the therapeutic applicator takes in the body cavity.
A therapeutic system comprising:
- an image diagnostic apparatus;
- a therapeutic apparatus for applying therapeutic energy to an affected region;
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- a control apparatus for supplying signals between the image diagnostic apparatus and the therapeutic apparatus.
A therapeutic system comprising:
- energy generating means for generating therapeutic energy;
- a therapeutic applicator for applying the therapeutic energy generated by the energy generating means to treat living tissues;
- tomogram generating means for generating a tomogram of an affected region;
- an energy supplying path provided between the energy generating means and the therapeutic applicator;
- a noise filter provided in the energy supplying path, for removing a frequency component that influences the tomogram generating means, from the therapeutic energy generated by the energy generating means.
A therapeutic system comprising:
- energy generating means for generating therapeutic energy;
- therapeutic means comprising a therapeutic electrode or a therapeutic applicator for applying the therapeutic energy from the energy generating means to living tissues present in an affected region, thereby to treat the living tissues, said therapeutic means having a plurality of position-indicating markers;
- an image diagnostic apparatus having a display means for displaying a tomogram of the affected region;
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- a control apparatus for detecting positions of the markers in the tomogram displayed by the display means and for controlling the energy generating means in accordance with the positions of the markers.
A therapeutic system comprising:
- energy generating means for generating therapeutic energy;
- therapeutic means comprising a therapeutic electrode or a therapeutic applicator for applying the therapeutic energy from the energy generating means to living tissues present in an affected region, thereby to treat the living tissues, said therapeutic means having a plurality of position-indicating markers;
- an image diagnostic apparatus having a display means for displaying a tomogram of the affected region;
- drive means for moving the therapeutic means;
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- a control unit for detecting the markers in the tomogram displayed by the display means and for controlling the energy generating means and the drive means in accordance with the positions of the markers.
A therapeutic system comprising:
- energy generating means for generating therapeutic energy;
- therapeutic means for applying therapeutic energy from the energy generating means to living tissues present in an affected region, thereby to treat the living tissues;
- tomogram generating means for generating a tomogram of the affected region;
- observation unit for setting measuring points or a reference line in the tomogram generated by the tomogram generating means and for determining how much the living tissues have been treated, from image data acquired at the measuring points or on the reference line.
A therapeutic system comprising:
- a therapeutic applicator adapted to be inserted into a body cavity, for applying therapeutic energy to treat living tissues present in the body cavity, said therapeutic applicator comprising a rod-shaped body and a conductor provided in the rod-shaped body and made of material having magnetic susceptibility of −10−3 to +10−3;
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- observation means for indicating a position which the therapeutic applicator takes in the body cavity.
A method of controlling a therapeutic system comprising a therapeutic applicator adapted to be inserted into a body cavity, for applying therapeutic energy to treat living tissues present in the body cavity, and observation means for indicating a position which the therapeutic applicator takes in the body cavity, said method comprising the steps of:
- generating an image of living tissues by the use of the observation means;
- determining a position which the therapeutic applicator takes in the body cavity, from the image generated by the use of the observation means;
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- controlling the therapeutic energy applied from the therapeutic applicator to the living tissues, on the basis of data representing the position which the therapeutic applicator determined.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.