WO2001028623A3 - Split beam transducer - Google Patents

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WO2001028623A3
WO2001028623A3 PCT/US2000/041226 US0041226W WO0128623A3 WO 2001028623 A3 WO2001028623 A3 WO 2001028623A3 US 0041226 W US0041226 W US 0041226W WO 0128623 A3 WO0128623 A3 WO 0128623A3
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Narendra T Sanghvi
Michael H Phillips
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Focus Surgery Inc
Narendra T Sanghvi
Michael H Phillips
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61NELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY
    • A61N7/00Ultrasound therapy
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61BDIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B8/00Diagnosis using ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves
    • A61B8/08Detecting organic movements or changes, e.g. tumours, cysts, swellings
    • A61B8/0833Detecting organic movements or changes, e.g. tumours, cysts, swellings involving detecting or locating foreign bodies or organic structures

Abstract

A method and apparatus for treating tissue includes providing an ultrasound transducer (14) having a surrounded ultrasound generating region (12) and a surrounding ultrasound generating region (18). The surrounded region (12) and surrounding region (18) are separately actuable (10, 13, 15, 16, 20) to generate ultrasound. At least the surrounding region (18) has a focus. The ultrasound transducer (12) is placed adjacent the tissue to be treated so that the focus of the surrounding region (18) lies adjacent a treatment site. The surrounding region (18) is actuated while the surrounded region (12) is maintained unactuated to treat the tissue to create a treated region in the tissue.
PCT/US2000/041226 1999-10-18 2000-10-18 Split beam transducer WO2001028623A2 (en)

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JP2001531451A JP2003512103A (en) 1999-10-18 2000-10-18 Split beam converter

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