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First Claim
1. A biological diagnostic and testing system comprising:
- probe means for examining intra-cellular activity within an individual cell in animal tissue in vivo and selectively providing a physical indication signal representing that activity;
control means for selectively actuating said probe means to provide said physical indication signal; and
display means for providing a visual display in real time of the intra-cellular activity represented by said physical indication signal.
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Abstract
A method, apparatus and procedure whereby a probe, which in the preferred embodiment is a fiber optic catheter, is used in vivo to acquire intra-cellular data from a host. Under computer control, the system detects the specific nature of the host subject'"'"'s cell kinetic processes. Cells are assumed to always acquire information about their environs and this information is detected and recognized as constituting friendly or unfriendly environments. Using physical analogies, the computer tracks pairing and unpairing of nucleotide sequences as biological radar. A reference analog is used to vary the view of the data-base so that selected portions or subsets of the available analogies lend themselves to sensory presentation from the computer to the user. Provision is made for interactive human communication with the host'"'"'s metabolism while microscopic resolution and forecasting are obtained. The method and procedure is analog driven and may be embodied in a variety of hardware and software mixes.
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38 Claims
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1. A biological diagnostic and testing system comprising:
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probe means for examining intra-cellular activity within an individual cell in animal tissue in vivo and selectively providing a physical indication signal representing that activity; control means for selectively actuating said probe means to provide said physical indication signal; and display means for providing a visual display in real time of the intra-cellular activity represented by said physical indication signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of biological diagnosis and testing comprising the steps of:
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examining intra-cellular activity within an individual cell in animal tissue in vivo with a probe and selectively providing a physical indication signal representing that activity; selectively actuating said probe to provide said physical indication signal; and providing a visual display in real time of the intracellular activity represented by said physical indication signal. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A biological diagnostic and testing system for monitoring intra-cellular activity within a common host, said system comprising:
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a plurality of individually actuable probe elements for examining intra-cellular activity within respective individual cells in said host, each probe element being responsive to reception of an interrogation signal for sensing a physical parameter within a localized area in its respective cell and providing a measurement signal representative of the state of that parameter; control means for selectively actuating each of said probe elements with respective interrogation signals; and processor means for receiving and individually monitoring the measurement signals provided by said probe elements. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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23. A method of biological diagnosis comprising the steps of:
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(a) selectively examining intra-cellular activity within an individual cell in animal tissue in vivo and providing an indication signal representing that activity; (b) comparing the provided indication signal with stored medical history data; and (c) determining, from the comparison in step (b) whether or not a predetermined disease condition is indicated by the examined intra-cellular activity. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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