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US 6,605,082 B2Granted
Thermal treatment apparatus
AssigneesOlympus Optical Co., Ltd., Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNorihiko Hareyama, Toru Nagase, Makoto Inaba, Takefumi Uesugi, Satoshi Mizukawa, Shin Maki, Shigeki Ariura
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Abstract
The invention relates to a thermal treatment apparatus capable of irradiating targeted lesions with energy to obtain good treatment results. The invention displays the diagnostic images 2201 of the lesion overlaid upon the laser irradiation areas a, b, c, and d and is capable of setting up the laser emission angle, output and time using the graphical user interface displayed on the touch panel.
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A thermal treatment apparatus for thermally treating by irradiating living bodies with energy comprising:
- an energy supplying means for supplying energies for treatment;
- an energy irradiating means for irradiating living bodies with energies supplied;
- a treatment planning means for setting up treatment areas to be irradiated with energies as treatment area information;
- a setup means for setting up treatment conditions based on treatment area information;
- an image information input means for inputting image information for diagnosis;
- an information overlaying means for overlaying the setup treatment area information on the input image information;
- an information manipulating means for manipulating at least one of the treatment area information or the image information;
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- said energy irradiating means including an elongated insertion part adapted to be inserted into a living organism and an emission part installed in said elongated insertion part to emit energy, said elongated insertion part including moving means for moving a position of said emission part in a longitudinal direction of said elongated insertion part and angle changing means for changing an emission angle of the energy emitted by the emission part in accordance with movement of the emission part by said moving means.
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A thermal treatment apparatus for thermally treating by irradiating living bodies with energy comprising:
- an energy supplying means for supplying energies for treatment;
- an energy irradiating means for irradiating living bodies with energies supplied;
- a treatment planning means for setting up at least two treatment areas to be irradiated with energies as treatment area information;
- a selection means for arbitrarily selecting areas to be treated among preset treating areas;
- a setup means for setting up treatment conditions based on the selected treatment areas;
- said energy irradiating means including an elongated insertion part adapted to be inserted into living organisms and an emission part installed in said elongated insertion part to emit energy, said elongated insertion part including moving means for moving a position of said emission part in the longitudinal direction of said elongated insertion part, and angle changing means for changing an emission angle of the emission energy in accordance with motion of the emission part by said moving means.
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A thermal treatment apparatus for thermally treating by irradiating living bodies with energy comprising:
- an energy supplying means for supplying energies for treatment;
- an energy irradiating means for irradiating living bodies with energies supplied;
- a treatment planning means for setting up treatment areas to be irradiated with energies as treatment area information;
- a setup means for setting up treatment conditions based on treatment area information;
- an image information input means for inputting image information for diagnosis;
- an information overlaying means for overlaying the setup treatment area information on the input image information;
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- an information manipulating means for manipulating at least one of the treatment are information or the image information, wherein
- said treatment planning means sets up irradiation areas of energy of the treatment area information by establishing a coordinate of a single reference point which can be set up at an arbitrary position within a predetermined area.
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A thermal treatment apparatus for thermally treating by irradiating living bodies with energy comprising:
- energy supplying means for supplying energies for treatment;
- energy irradiating means for irradiating living bodies with energies supplied;
- treatment planning means for setting up treatment areas to be irradiated with energies as treatment area information;
- setup means for setting up treatment conditions based on treatment area information;
- image information input means for inputting image information for diagnosis;
- information overlaying means for overlaying the setup treatment area information on the input image information;
- information manipulating means for manipulating at least one of the treatment area information or the image information;
- an overlapping area warning means which issues a warning when an overlapping area exists in a preset energy irradiation area;
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- said treatment planning means setting up irradiation areas of energy of the treatment area information by establishing a coordinate of a single reference point.
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A thermal treatment apparatus for thermally treating by irradiating living bodies with energy comprising:
- energy supplying means for supplying energies for treatment;
- energy irradiating means for irradiating living bodies with energies supplied;
- treatment planning means for setting up at least two treatment areas to be irradiated with energies as treatment area information and for setting up irradiation areas of energy of the treatment area information by establishing a coordinate of a single reference point which can be set up at an arbitrary position within a predetermined area;
- selection means for arbitrarily selecting areas to be treated among preset treating areas;
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- setup means for setting up treatment conditions based on the selected treatment areas.
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A thermal treatment apparatus for thermally treating by irradiating living bodies with energy comprising:
- energy supplying means for supplying energies for treatment;
- energy irradiating means for irradiating living bodies with energies supplied;
- treatment planning means for setting up at least two treatment areas to be irradiated with energies as treatment area information and for setting up irradiation areas of energy of the treatment area information by establishing a coordinate of a single reference point;
- overlapping area warning means which issues a warning when overlapping area exists in a preset energy irradiation area;
- selection means for arbitrarily selecting areas to be treated among preset treating areas;
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- setup means for setting up treatment conditions based on the selected treatment areas.
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A thermal treatment apparatus for thermally treating by irradiating living bodies with energy comprising:
- energy supplying means for supplying energies for treatment;
- energy irradiating means for irradiating living bodies with energies supplied;
- treatment planning means for setting up at least two treatment areas to be irradiated with energies as treatment area information;
- selection means for arbitrarily selecting areas to be treated among preset treating areas;
- setup means for setting up treatment conditions based on the selected treatment areas;
- recording means for recording the areas where energy irradiations are executed among the treatment areas set up by said treatment planning means;
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- said selection means preventing already irradiated areas recorded in said recording means from being selected.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.