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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
May. 06, 2002
Andreas Menne, Meersburg, DE;
Thomas Jerger, Sindelfingen, DE;
Ferton Holding S.A., Delemont, CH;
Abstract
A medical instrument for treating biological tissue comprises a housing ( ), a pressure wave generation means ( ) and a transmission means ( ) for coupling the unfocused pressure waves into the body of living beings. The transmission means ( ) comprises a pressure chamber ( ) having an inlet and an outlet end, the pressure chamber ( ) containing a liquid ( ) into which pressure waves from the pressure wave generation means ( ) can be coupled, which pressure waves can be transmitted to a membrane ( ) arranged at the outlet end of the pressure chamber ( ) which membrane ( ) couples the pressure waves transmitted from the liquid unfocusedly into the biological tissue.