Cauterizing based at least partially on Compton scattered x-ray visualizing, imaging, or information providing

• US 20080253531A1
• Filed: 01/29/2008
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Deep Science LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Muriel Y., Smith, Michael A., Weaver, Thomas A., Myhrvold, Nathan P., Tegreene, Clarence T., Lord, Robert W., Boyden, Edward S., Jung, Edward K.Y., Whitmer, Charles, Rivet, Dennis J., Hyde, Roderick A., Wood, Victoria Y.H., Leuthardt, Eric C., Wood, Lowell L., Foster, Glenn B.
• Application Number:
  US12/011,991
• Publication Number:
  US 20080253531A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 378/87
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/12 by passing a current through the tissue to be heated, e.g. high-frequency current
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/20 using laser
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/12 Arrangements for detecting or locating foreign bodies
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/482 involving multiple energy imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/483 involving scattered radiation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/505 for diagnosis of bone
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/506 for diagnosis of nerves
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/507 for determination of haemodynamic parameters, e.g. perfusion CT
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/508 for non-human patients
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/512 Intraoral means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/548 Remote control of the apparatus or devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 7/02 Localised ultrasound hyperthermia hyperthermia in general A61F7/00

Abstract

Certain aspects relate to locating an at least one prescribed desired cauterizing region within an at least some matter of an at least a portion of an individual at least partially responsive to a Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual. Certain aspects relate to cauterizing the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region at least partially responsive to the locating the at least one prescribed desired cauterizing region within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual, at least partially response to the locating the at least one prescribed desired cauterizing region within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing within an at least some matter of an at least a portion of an individual; and

locating an at least one prescribed desired cauterizing region within the at least some matter of the at least a portion of the individual at least partially responsive to the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising cauterizing the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region at least partially responsive to the locating the at least one prescribed desired cauterizing region within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing is provided at an operationally relevant portion of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing is provided at an operationally relevant portion of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual and wherein the operationally relevant portion concerns the proximity of the cauterizing to a sensitive area of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing is provided at an operationally relevant portion of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual and wherein the operationally relevant portion concerns the relevancy of the cauterizing to altering blood flow to a region of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing is provided at an operationally relevant portion of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual and wherein the operationally relevant portion concerns the proximity of the cauterizing to causing pressure or stress, which leads to a physical, chemical, or functional alteration of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing is performed at a rate sufficient to substantially capture a physical motion that is consistent with an individual-based physiological process.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing is performed at a rate sufficient to substantially capture a physical motion that is consistent with a user-observable physiological process.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing is at least partially performed in a manner to limit contacting or close proximity during the cauterizing with sensitive regions or areas of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

10. A method, comprising:

locating an at least one prescribed desired cauterizing region within an at least some matter of an at least a portion of an individual at least partially responsive to a Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual; and

cauterizing the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region at least partially responsive to the locating the at least one prescribed desired cauterizing region within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual, at least partially response to the locating the at least one prescribed desired cauterizing region within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the cauterizing the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region is at least partially performed by at least one from a tool group, the tool group involves an at least one X-ray device, an at least one chemical device, an at least one thermal device, an at least one ultrasound device, an at least one generated microbubble device, an at least one optical device, an at least one electrical device, and/or an at least one physical device.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the cauterizing the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual is controlled or adjusted by a human user.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the cauterizing the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual is controlled or adjusted by a machine-based user.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the cauterizing the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region is performed in a substantially real-time basis.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the cauterizing the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region at least partially relies on focusing multiple beams to the at least one prescribed desired ablating region.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the cauterizing the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region is at least partially based on directing multiple beams at different angles to the at least one prescribed desired ablating region.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the cauterizing the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region is at least partially based on directing multiple beams from different positions to the at least one prescribed desired ablating region.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the cauterizing the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region is provided with a low invasiveness of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

19. The method of claim 10, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing provides information concerning at least some matter concentration of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

20. The method of claim 10, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing provides information concerning at least some matter composition of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

21. The method of claim 10, wherein the cauterizing the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region is performed on a position-by-position basis within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

22. The method of claim 10, wherein the cauterizing the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region occurs at least partially to a prescribed Compton scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing depth within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

23. The method of claim 10, wherein the cauterizing the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region occurs at least partially to a prescribed range of Compton scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing depths within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

24. The method of claim 10, wherein the individual includes at least one from a group of individuals, the group of individuals includes at least one of a human, an animal, an organism, and/or a plant.

25. The method of claim 10, wherein the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual at least partially includes a group of matter, the group of matter includes at least one from at least one tissue, at least one bodily fluid, at least a portion of a bone, a boney portion, or at least one bone portion or bone fragment, at least a tooth, or a portion thereof, or an at least partially internal insert.

26. The method of claim 10, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing further comprises:

functionally Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing.

27. The method of claim 10, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing further comprises:

anatomically Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing.

28. An apparatus, comprising:

a Compton scattered X-ray visualizer, imager, or information provider configured to Compton X-ray scattering visualize, image, or information provide within an at least some matter of an at least a portion of an individual; and

the Compton scattered X-ray visualizer, imager, or information provider configured to locate an at least one prescribed desired cauterizing region within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual at least partially responsive to the Compton scattered X-ray visualizer, imager, or information provider configured to Compton X-ray scattering visualize, image, or information provide within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

29. The apparatus of claim 28, further comprising a cauterizing portion configured to cauterize the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region at least partially responsive to the the Compton scattered X-ray visualizer, imager, or information provider configured to locate an at least one prescribed desired cauterizing region within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

30. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the Compton scattered X-ray visualizer, imager, or information provider configured to Compton X-ray scattering visualize, image, or information provide is provided at an operationally relevant portion of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

31. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the Compton scattered X-ray visualizer, imager, or information provider configured to Compton X-ray scattering visualize, image, or information provide is provided at an operationally relevant portion of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual and wherein the operationally relevant portion concerns the proximity of the cauterizing to a sensitive area of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

32. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the Compton scattered X-ray visualizer, imager, or information provider configured to Compton X-ray scattering visualize, image, or information provide is provided at an operationally relevant portion of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual and wherein the operationally relevant portion concerns the relevancy of the cauterizing to altering blood flow to a region of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

33. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the Compton scattered X-ray visualizer, imager, or information provider configured to Compton X-ray scattering visualize, image, or information provide is provided at an operationally relevant portion of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual and wherein the operationally relevant portion concerns the proximity of the cauterizing to causing pressure or stress, which leads to a physical, chemical, or functional alteration of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

34. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the Compton scattered X-ray visualizer, imager, or information provider configured to Compton X-ray scattering visualize, image, or information provide is performed at a rate sufficient to substantially capture a physical motion that is consistent with an individual-based physiological process.

35. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the Compton scattered X-ray visualizer, imager, or information provider configured to Compton X-ray scattering visualize, image, or information provide is performed at a rate sufficient to substantially capture a physical motion that is consistent with a user-observable physiological process.

36. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the Compton scattered X-ray visualizer, imager, or information provider configured to Compton X-ray scattering visualize, image, or information provide is at least partially performed in a manner to limit contacting or close proximity during the cauterizing with sensitive regions or areas of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

37. An apparatus, comprising:

a cauterizing portion configured to cauterize an at least some matter of an at least a portion of an individual within an at least one prescribed desired ablating region at least partially responsive to a locating the at least one prescribed desired cauterizing region within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual based at least partially on Compton X-ray scattering visualize, image, or information providing.

38. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the cauterizing portion configured to cauterize the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region is controlled or adjusted by a human user.

39. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the cauterizing portion configured to cauterize the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region is controlled or adjusted by a machine-based user.

40. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the cauterizing portion configured to cauterize the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region is performed in a substantially real-time basis.

41. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the cauterizing portion configured to cauterize the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region at least partially relies on focusing multiple beams to the at least one prescribed desired ablating region.

42. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the cauterizing portion configured to cauterize the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region is at least partially based on directing multiple beams at different angles to the at least one prescribed desired ablating region.

43. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the cauterizing portion configured to cauterize the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region is at least partially based on directing multiple beams from different positions to the at least one prescribed desired ablating region.

44. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the cauterizing portion configured to cauterize the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region is provided with a low invasiveness of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

45. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing provides information concerning at least some matter concentration of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

46. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing provides information concerning at least some matter composition of the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

47. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region is performed on a position-by-position basis within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

48. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region occurs at least partially to a prescribed Compton scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing depth within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

49. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the Compton X-ray scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing within the at least one prescribed desired ablating region occurs at least partially to a prescribed range of Compton scattering visualizing, imaging, or information providing depths within the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

50. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the individual includes at least one from a group of individuals, the group of individuals includes at least one of a human, an animal, an organism, and/or a plant.

51. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual at least partially includes a group of matter, the group of matter includes at least one from at least one tissue, at least one bodily fluid, at least a portion of a bone, a boney portion, or at least one bone portion or bone fragment, at least a tooth, or a portion thereof, or an at least partially internal insert.

52. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the cauterizing portion configured to cauterize the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual further comprises:

the cauterizing portion configured to functionally cauterize the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.

53. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the cauterizing portion configured to cauterize the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual further comprises:

the cauterizing portion configured to anatomically cauterize the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the individual.