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Sonacare Medical, LLC

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Focus Surgery, Inc.

Roy S Carlson

Narendra T Sanghvi

Ralf Seip

Wo-Hsing Chen

Russell J Fedewa

Toyoaki Uchida

Chandan Guha

Russell James Fedewa

Dan Voic

Paul W Mikus

Mark Carol

Rodrigo Chaluisan

Adam Morris

Artur P Katny

Clint C Weis

Clint S Weis

A method for delivering ultrasound can include positioning at least a focal zone of a transducer of an ultrasound probe proximate to targeted tissue of a patient. The method can include supplying power to the transducer to deliver ultrasound energy from the transducer to a first portion of the targeted tissue for a predetermined amount of time to create a first focal lesion in the targeted tissue. The method can include at least temporarily ceasing power to the transducer so as to at least temporarily cease delivery of ultrasound energy from the transducer to the targeted tissue. The method can include supplying power to the transducer to deliver ultrasound energy from the transducer to the targeted tissue at least substantially continuously and along a predefined treatment path.

System, apparatus and method for high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and/or ultrasound delivery while protecting critical structures

A method and apparatus is disclosed for determining the success of a proposed HIFU Treatment, of an ongoing HIFU Treatment, and/or of a completed HIFU Treatment. An energy density of a given HIFU Treatment may be used as a comparison factor between the given HIFU Treatment and other HIFU Treatments and as a predictor of the success of the given HIFU Treatment. One exemplary energy density is the amount of energy deposited in the treatment region divided by the volume of the treatment region. Another exemplary energy density is the amount of energy deposited in the treatment region divided by the pre-treatment mass of the treatment region. A method and apparatus is disclosed to detect the presence of focal hyperechoic features and non-focal hyperechoic features. A method and apparatus is disclosed to detect the presence of an acoustic obstruction.

Method and apparatus for the treatment of tissue

A method of diagnosis and treatment of tumors using High Intensity Focused Ultrasound is provided. The method of diagnosing the presence of a tumor in a patient comprises the steps of subjecting a tumor to high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to cause the tumor cells to release cellular material and evaluating the cellular material for a tumor marker. The method of treating a tumor in a patient can also comprise the step of subjecting a tumor to high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to provoke an immune response.

Method of diagnosis and treatment of tumors using high intensity focused ultrasound

Method and apparatus for treatment of tissue

A method and apparatus is disclosed for determining the presence of tissue change due to exposure to HIFU Therapy.

System and method for tissue change monitoring during HIFU treatment

A high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation of tissue using minimally invasive medical procedures is provided.

Laparoscopic HIFU probe

Harvesting apparatus particularly suited for picking citrus fruit, apples, and the like, has an adjustable boom mounted on a vehicle with a harvesting head secured to the free end of the boom for tilting and turning to either side and for forward and rearward tilting. A flexible and longitudinally expansible tube carries the picked fruit from the harvesting head to a suitable receptacle. A preferred embodiment of the harvesting head has a resiliently surfaced roller mounted for rotation in either of opposite directions between resiliently surfaced side walls of the head. As the roller gathers the fruit from a tree limb, the roller deposits the fruit in a passageway between the roller and one of the resilient side walls and rotates the fruit as it passes through a nip portion of the passageway, to release the fruit from the limb, and then release the limb from the harvesting head. Fingers spaced along either side wall prevent excessive movement of the limb lengthwise of the passageway and are mounted for upward movement to release the limb after the fruit has been removed from the limb. A second embodiment has a pair of contra-rotating rollers, one adjacent each of opposite resilient side walls of the head, and a third embodiment utilizes a rotating sphere within a resilient, inverted frusto-conical side wall of the head. Provision is made for varying the spacing between the side walls and roller or rollers, or sphere, in order to efficiently handle different sizes of fruit.

Harvesting apparatus

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Deland, FL, United States of America

Roy S Carlson