Method and device for subaqueous ultrasonic irradiation of living tissue
First Claim
1. A wound treatment apparatus comprising:
- a tank;
a water feed pipe extending to said tank;
an electromechanical transducer in pressure-wave transmitting relationship to said tank for generating ultrasonic pressure waves in water contained in said tank; and
an electrical signal generator operatively connected to said transducer for energizing same with an alternating electrical signal that is partially rectified.
0 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
Applicable to humans, animals and fish, a method for injecting thoroughly diffused ambient air or disinfectant into water prior to its delivery into a therapy tank plus an underwater PZT probe transmission of separate stable and transient cavitation signals from which a microcomputer determines, 1) the average number of transducer generated sinoidal equal amplitude alternating compression and rarefaction ultrasonic acoustic pressure waves cycles necessary to create inertial and/or transient cavitation and the required number of rectified sinoidal equal amplitude ultrasonic compression acoustic pressure waves necessary to suppress the inertial/transient cavitation and thereby maintain stable cavitation for cleaning and open-wound therapy treatment for 15-minutes, (or greater) time periods and, 2) the necessary dilution of water and disinfectant and its activation by dual-mode transient cavitation to kill the pathogens shed by the “patient” following “patient” cleaning or wound-therapy treatment.
-
Citations
26 Claims
-
1. A wound treatment apparatus comprising:
-
a tank;
a water feed pipe extending to said tank;
an electromechanical transducer in pressure-wave transmitting relationship to said tank for generating ultrasonic pressure waves in water contained in said tank; and
an electrical signal generator operatively connected to said transducer for energizing same with an alternating electrical signal that is partially rectified. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
-
-
19. An ultrasonic treatment method comprising:
-
feeding water to a tank;
during the feeding of said water,dissolving air in said water;
disposing at least a portion of a living organism in the aerated water; and
thereafter ultrasonically generating stable vibrating bubbles in said aerated water, the generating of said stable vibrating bubbles including energizing a transducer with periods of full-wave compression and rarefaction cycles alternating with periods of rectified-wave compression pressure cycles sufficient to suppress inertial or transient cavitation for a predetermined interval. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
-
Specification