Surgery – Magnetic field applied to body for therapy
Reexamination Certificate
2000-06-22
2002-10-08
Winakur, Eric F. (Department: 3736)
Surgery
Magnetic field applied to body for therapy
C600S013000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06461289
ABSTRACT:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a device for magnetic field therapy of human, animal, and plant tissues, their organs or cell groups, and includes at least a device for the production of a magnetic field with a static and an alternating field component at the location of the tissue to be treated.
TECHNICAL FIELD
Curative, and also prophylactic, magnetic field treatment is well known in the art. While the tissue to be treated was originally exposed to the magnetic field of a permanent magnet, coils through which current flows are now frequently used for the production of the fields. In European Patent EP 0594655B1, for example, a device with a generator producing an electrical current pulsed with a low frequency and connected to a transmitting coil is disclosed, whose electromagnetic fields act on a region of the body to be treated. In order to provide a device for the transport of ions and particularly of protons, making possible a targeted action on ionic mobility in optional body regions in humans and animals, the transmitting energy for the transmitting coil is chosen to be so high that the energy induced in the electrolyte liquid increases the thermal energy and nevertheless lies within the boundary values of a so-called cell-specific amplitude window. The pulsed currents produced by the generator include a base current pulse of about 100-1000 Hz, which consists of the superposition of a rectangular current and a current which rises about exponentially, followed by a pulse pause of at least equal length. The amplitude of the base pulse train is modulated in amplitude with a modulating frequency of 0.5-25 Hz, and the modulated base pulse train is emitted as a pulse train series for a period of 0.3-1 second, respectively followed by a pulse pause of 0.7-0.5 seconds. The patentee refers to the combined action of pulse frequency, pulse form, pulse energy, and transmission pulse shape, which make possible for ions, and protons in particular, to be targeted and directly injected, for example from the blood, the lymph, or the [tissue] fluid, into the vessel walls and membranes which surround them.
A device is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 48,186 for the amplification of the transport of a selected ion through a bio-molecular membrane, which is disposed in a space which is acted on by a local magnetic field. The associated process includes the steps of the production of a magnetic field which has a non-vanishing average value, and the production of a magnetic alternating field with a frequency which corresponds to the cyclotron resonance frequency of the predetermined ion. Due to the energy transfer, which can be controlled by means of the cyclotron resonance frequency, to the predetermined ion, the transport of the ion through the bio-molecular membrane, for example, a cell membrane, can be controlled. In European Patent EP 0407006B1, the same inventors describe a device for the movement of a predetermined ion through a membrane, wherein the frequency of the alternating magnetic field ia proportional to the cyclotron resonance frequency of the predetermined ion, and, differing from the abovementioned American Patent Application, the proportionality constant is a predetermined, odd integer greater than unity.
The devices described hereinabove, by which in detail the internal energy of the intracorporeal electrolyte liquids is increased or the transport of predetermined ions through cell membranes is controlled, exhibit a certain workability in the field of clinical researches.
However, the need further exists to act more effectively on the tissue, and in particular to take account of the specific structure of a living organism in the construction of a device for magnetic field therapy.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention set out in this manner is attained surprisingly simply with a device for magnetic field therapy of human, animal, or plant tissues which includes at least a device for the production of a magnetic field with a static component which is constant in time and an alternating field component at the location of the tissue to be treated, characterized in that the magnetic alternating field has a predetermined cell biorhythm frequency v
z
and is substantially monochromatic, and the device furthermore includes a device for the amplitude modulation of the magnetic alternating field with a modulation frequency v
o
which is determined by the expression v
o
=Bq/2
m, wherein B is the static magnetic flux density, q is the charge and m the mass of the predetermined ion, or is a predetermined organ biorhythm frequency.
All processes in the body take place on the cellular level. Attention has to be paid to the behavior of the body as a whole, as an ordered cell agglomeration.
All living organisms are formed by various cells.
All organs are formed from specific kinds of cells.
All processes in the body of the living organism take place on the cellular level.
All disorders of the living organism begin from the cellular level and go along the following chain: cells→organs→organism.
Disturbances of the ion transport also take place on the cellular level.
Magnetic field therapy is based on the employment of static and alternating magnetic fields, and exerts a direct influence on the living organism and biological structures.
The frequency region of the human biorhythms includes frequencies in the region of 0-100,000 Hz, or 0-1,000,000 Hz.
Biorhythms of the cells
(generally) 1000-1,000,000 Hz
(as a rule) 1000-100,000 Hz
Biorhythms of the organs
(generally) 0.1-1000 Hz
(as a rule) 0.1-200 Hz
(most frequently) 1-100 Hz
Biorhythms of individual cell groups
0-0.5 Hz
(e.g., skin), and also biorhythms of the individual organ groups of the organism and other biorhythm frequencies of the organism as a whole.
According to this, such a device, with an apparatus for the production of a magnetic field with a static and an alternating field component at the location of the tissue to be treated, is distinguished in that the magnetic alternating field has a predetermined cell biorhythm frequency v
z
, and is substantially monochromatic, and that the apparatus furthermore includes a device for the amplitude modulation of the magnetic alternating field with a modulation frequency v
o
, which is set to be equal to the cyclotron resonance frequency B·q/2·
m, where B is the static magnetic flux density, q is the charge and m the mass of the predetermined ion, or is equal to a predetermined organ biorhythm frequency or cell biorhythm frequency.
Thus the device according to the invention can be used for simultaneously increasing the internal energy of the cells in the treated region of the intracorporeal electrolyte liquid, and also for increasing the energy of a predetermined group of ions, in order to support the transport of the ions in the region of the cell membrane.
The main concept is the transfer of energy to the cells at the biorhythm frequency v
z
.
It has been found that not only a magnetic alternating field with the cyclotron resonance frequency can increase the transport of predetermined ions in the region of the cell membranes, but also that this can be attained with an amplitude modulation of a magnetic alternating field, when this oscillates with a biorhythm frequency of cells or organs, and the amplitude is modulated with the cyclotron resonance frequency. The energy transfer with the matching biorhythm frequencies takes place in the treated region according to the following scheme: cells→organ→organ group, with simultaneous action or assistance of the cyclotron resonance on the ion transport.
Besides the direct effects on the energy of an ion through the setting up of the cyclotron resonance frequency associated with this ion by means of the amplitude modulation frequency, in a secondary process the alternating action of this ion with other ions can also increase their energy.
Veniaminov Nikita R
Winakur Eric F.
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