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Title:
THERAPEUTIC DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2004202253
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a therapeutic device which performs thermotherapy and radiotherapy in a body cavity at the same time to enhance a therapeutic effect on a lesion and highly accurately and concentratedly irradiates the lesion locally existing only in a part in the circumferential direction in the body cavity of a patient with a radiation emitted from a radiation source so as to effectively apply combined use of the thermotherapy and radiotherapy.

The outer circumferential direction of a catheter path 64 for RI in which the radiation source for radiotherapy is inserted is covered with a high-frequency electrode 61 for thermotherapy formed by materials which have low transmittance of the radiation. A balloon 26 is arranged to cover the high-frequency electrode 61 for the thermotherapy. The radiation from the radiation source can be emitted through an opening 62 for emitting the radiation in the high-frequency electrode 61.


Inventors:
HATTA SHINJI
NAMIOKA YASUHIRO
TANAKA HIROAKI
Application Number:
JP2004038528A
Publication Date:
July 22, 2004
Filing Date:
February 16, 2004
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Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORP
International Classes:
A61N1/06; A61F7/12; A61N5/02; A61N5/10; (IPC1-7): A61N5/10; A61F7/12; A61N1/06; A61N5/02
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takehiko Suzue
Satoshi Kono
Sadao Muramatsu
Tetsuya Kazama



 
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