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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sylvester Oppelt, Memmelsdorf, DE;
Arnim Rohwedder, Fuerth, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
12866003 ; 601-4 ;
Abstract
A therapy apparatus for treatment with focused acoustic waves which has a source of focused acoustic waves, an acoustic receiver for the reception of parts of the acoustic waves reflected from a subject to be acoustically irradiated, and can be switched from a therapy mode to a locating mode. The apparatus also include circuitry for varying the oscillatory frequency of the generated acoustic waves dependent on whether the apparatus is switched to the therapy or locating mode. A method for operating such an apparatus is also disclosed.