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Apparatus and Method for Selectively Heating a Deposit in Fatty Tissue in a Body

  • US 20100100092A1
  • Filed: 12/23/2009
  • Published: 04/22/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for providing hyperthermia treatments to a breast having fatty mammary tissue surrounding a deposit in the breast, comprising:

  • a cavity for receiving the breast therein;

    a first radio frequency antenna operable to direct a radio frequency signal at a selected frequency into the breast such that the radio frequency signal will have a selected wavelength to selectively heat the deposit to a temperature greater than the surrounding fatty mammary tissue at least partially through resonant heating within the deposit from the radio frequency signal when a diameter of the deposit is within a range of about 0.5 times to 0.16 times the wavelength of the radio frequency signal within the fatty mammary tissue; and

    a deposit adapted to be positioned in the fatty mammary tissue of the breast adjacent tissue to be treated, whereby the deposit, when positioned in the fatty mammary tissue adjacent the tissue to be treated, will be heated, at least partially by resonant heating, by the radio frequency signals, the heated deposit then supplying heat for heat treatment to the tissue adjacent the deposit.

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