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US 2006/0079762 A1Published application
Integrated disease diagnosis and treatment system
AssigneeTomophase Corporation
InventorsPeter Norris, Feiling Wang, Xiao-Li Li
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Abstract
Designs, implementations, and techniques for optically measuring a sample and integrated systems that provide CT-scan, optical probing and therapy by electromagnetic radiation treatment (e.g. laser, RF, or microwave). Light at different wavelength bands may be used to detect different absorption features in the sample. Multiple light sources may be used including tunable lasers.
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A medical device, comprising:
- a bronchoscope comprising a working channel configured for insertion into a passage of a body to reach a target area inside the body;
- an optical fiber probe module comprising (1) a probe optic fiber having a portion inserted into the working channel of the bronchoscope and (2) an optical probe head coupled to an end of the probe optic fiber and located inside the working channel, the optical fiber probe device operable to direct probe light to and collect reflected light from the target area in the body through the probe optic fiber and the optical probe head and to further obtain information of the target area from the collected reflected light;
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- a laser therapy module comprising a power delivery optic fiber having a portion inserted into the working channel of the bronchoscope to deliver a treatment laser beam to the target area.
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A medical device for lung cancer treatment comprising:
- a computed tomography (CT) scan unit to detect and locate pulmonary nodule locations of a lung;
- an optical cross-sectional imaging unit to optically measure and analyze each of the pulmonary nodule locations to distinguish between benign and malignant pulmonary nodule locations;
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- an irradiation therapy unit to optically treat a selected pulmonary nodule location that is malignant.
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An integrated diagnostic and treatment system, comprising:
- a CT scan unit to locate ailing areas in a body part;
- a referenced cross-sectional imaging unit to analyze each ailing area;
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- a laser irradiation therapy unit to treat a selected area.
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A method for diagnosing and treating a malignant condition of a patient, comprising:
- performing a computed tomography (CT) scan in a selected body part of the patient to identify locations in the selected body part that are potentially malignant;
- using an optical probe beam to optically probe the identified locations to further identify malignant locations from benign locations;
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- delivering radiation energy to each identified malignant location to treat a malignant condition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.