30 results about "Treatment Setting" patented technology

A programming-device user interface may include multiple levels of abstraction for programming treatment settings. A stimulation zone-programming interface may be at a highest level of abstraction and may include idealized stimulation zones. A field strength-programming interface may be at a middle level of abstraction and may include electromagnetic field-strength patterns generated by the stimulation zones, and / or electrode settings, and a depiction of how the electromagnetic fields interact with each other. An electrode-programming interface may be at a lowest level of abstraction and may depict treatment settings at an electrodes-view level. These interfaces may include a display of a stimulatable area of the patient's body. The display may include a depiction of leads and / or the underlying physiology, such as a depiction of a portion of a spine. Algorithms map treatment settings from one level of abstraction to settings at one or more other levels of abstraction.

A method, system and computer program product for correcting a nominal treatment strategy of a subject with diabetes. The method, system and computer program product may be configured for providing input whereby the input may include: open-loop therapy settings for the subject, data about glycemic state of the subject; and (optionally) data about meals and / or exercise of the subject. The method, system and computer program product may be configured for providing output, whereby the out-put may include an adjustment (correction) to the open-loop therapy settings for the subject for insulin delivery to the subject.

A programming-device user interface may include multiple levels of abstraction for programming treatment settings. A stimulation zone-programming interface may be at a highest level of abstraction and may include idealized stimulation zones. A field strength-programming interface may be at a middle level of abstraction and may include electromagnetic field-strength patterns generated by the stimulation zones, and / or electrode settings, and a depiction of how the electromagnetic fields interact with each other. An electrode-programming interface may be at a lowest level of abstraction and may depict treatment settings at an electrodes-view level. These interfaces may include a display of a stimulatable area of the patient's body. The display may include a depiction of leads and / or the underlying physiology, such as a depiction of a portion of a spine. Algorithms map treatment settings from one level of abstraction to settings at one or more other levels of abstraction.

Orthodontic and / or dental treatment planning methods and apparatuses. In particular, described herein are methods of generating a plurality of potential treatment plan variations for the concurrent and interactive review of the treatment plan variations. Also described herein are orthodontic and / or dental treatment planning methods and apparatuses that present the plurality of treatment plans to the user to allow a user to select a treatment plan from a plurality of different treatment plans.

The invention discloses a three-layer co-extruded rapid bidirectionally stretched wide polyethylene composite film and a preparation method thereof and relates to a polyethylene film and a packaging material. The film comprises three polyethylene film layers orderly comprising a surface layer, a barrier layer and a heat-sealing layer from outside to inside. The surface layer and the heat-sealing layer are prepared from low density polyethylene, metallocene polyethylene, ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene, a slipping agent and an antistatic agent. The barrier layer is prepared from ethene / vinyl alcohol copolymer resin. The preparation method comprises mother material pretreatment, fusion, plastification and heating of all layers of resin raw materials, filtration for impurity removal, extrusion and flake fluid discharge, cooling to form a glassy casting sheet with uniform thickness on the surface of a cooling roller when the flake fluid flows through the surface of the cooling roller, vertical stretching processes of preheating, drawing and heat treatment setting in a vertical stretching unit, film transverse stretching processes of preheating, drawing, heat treatment setting and cooling in a transverse stretching machine, film traction and rolling for formation of a large coil of a film, and film cutting for finished product formation.

The present invention relates to a subject placement device for use in a diagnostic and / or therapeutical treatment setting. The subject placement device of the present invention includes: (a) a board for receiving a body of the subject, and (b) a head cradle extending from said board, said head cradle being enabled to receive a range of head diameters.

A method and system for masking to a listener a conversation between a care provider and a patient such that the conversation becomes unintelligible to the listener, includes interposing an acoustically absorbent curtain that substantially spans between the floor and the ceiling and is positioned between the listener and the care provider and patient. A masking device is affixed to the curtain generally between the floor and the ceiling at a position along the barrier length and at a height approximately coinciding with a height of a mouth of the care provider. The masking device includes at least one speaker having an axis oriented generally perpendicular to the plane the curtain defines. An amplifier drives the speaker to produce a sound to propagate along the axis. A signal source provided at the amplifier input produces the sound selected to mask the conversation between the care provider and the patient.

The invention provides a non-invasive skin treatment device (100) comprising an r.f. treatment electrode (10); a return electrode (40); an r.f. generator (20) configured and arranged such that, during treatment, an r.f. treatment signal is applied between the r.f. treatment electrode (10) and the return electrode (40) for heating an inner region (15) of skin; an impedance measurement circuit (35) configured and arranged to measure, before treatment of the inner region, an initial skin impedance (Zo) between the r.f. treatment electrode (10) and the return electrode (40); and a treatment settings determiner (30) configured and arranged to determine, before treatment of the inner region (15), treatment settings associated with the r.f. treatment signal depending on the initial skin impedance (Zo) and on a dimension of the r.f. treatment electrode (10) in the contact plane, the treatment settings comprising at least one of a treatment duration (TD) associated with a desired treatment result, and an r.f. electrical parameter associated with the r.f. treatment signal. The skin treatment device (100) further comprises a controller (25) configured and arranged to consecutively activate the impedance measurement circuit (35) and the treatment settings determiner (30) before treatment of the inner region (15), configure the r.f. generator (20) to provide the r.f. treatment signal according to the treatment settings, and activate the r.f. generator (20) to apply the r.f. treatment signal to the inner region (15) for the treatment duration (TD). The invention is based on the insight obtained from multiple measurements made during the creation of microscopic thermal lesions in an inner region of skin by applying r.f. measurement and treatment signals. By analyzing the histological and heating results, a relationship was obtained between the initial impedance (Zo), the dimension of the r.f. treatment electrode (10), and the treatment settings required to obtain a particular skin treatment result. This relationship has been found to be relatively constant for different subjects, different treatment locations on the body and different skin moisture contents. The invention makes it possible to preset or predetermine, i.e. in advance, the treatment duration (TD) and / or the r.f. electrical parameters associated with the r.f. treatment signal accurately enough to avoid undesired skin damage during the treatment. The device can be simpler, as it is no longer essential to continuously monitor the impedance during treatment to determine the onset of undesired skin damage, such as ablation, which is the safety feature known from conventional devices.

The invention discloses a poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) microporous membrane with high strength and high thermal stability and a preparation method of the poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) microporous membrane. The membrane is prepared from 25 to 50 parts of poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) resin, 0.05 to 1 part of antioxidant and 50 to 75 parts of diluent; the poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) microporous membrane is prepared by the following working procedures: mixing and melting; extrusion molding; biaxial stretching; extracting and drying; heat treatment setting and the like. Compared with a polyolefin membrane, the poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) microporous membrane disclosed by the invention has the advantages of high thermal resistance, high mechanical strength, high liquid absorbing and retaining rate and the like. The thermal shrinkage rate of the poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) microporous membrane prepared by the preparation method disclosed by the invention in an MD direction is not greater than 3.0 at 105DEG C / 1h, the thermal shrinkage rate of the poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) microporous membrane in a TD direction is not greater than 2.0, the MD tensile strength is greater than 200MPa, the TD tensile strength is greater than 170MPa, and the air permeability range is 150+ / -50 sec / 100mL.

The invention discloses a medical atomizing treatment device. According to the medical atomizing treatment device disclosed by the invention, graduations are arranged on the side surface of a drug cup, and a piston is arranged in the drug cup and is sequentially connected with a telescopic rod and a rotating plug; and the position of the piston can be adjusted by the rotating plug and the telescopic rod. The position of the piston is adjusted according to the drug consumption, and a patient only needs to fill the drug cup every time without observing the liquid surface once again, so that theproblem that an old person charges drugs difficultly is solved. A two stage atomizing flow including rotational flow atomizing and spray head atomizing is set to prepare large granule fog drops, so that the treatment of upper respiratory diseases is realized; a three stage atomizing flow including rotational flow atomizing, collision atomizing and spray head atomizing is set to prepare microparticle fog drops, so that the treatment of lower respiratory diseases is realized; the three stage atomizing flow is adopted, so that the particle dimension of the fog drops can be effectively reduced, and microparticle fog drops can be prepared; and according to the type of the diseases, two atomizing flows can be chosen, the and targeting performance of disease treatment is clear. The medical atomizing treatment device disclosed by the invention has the characteristics of being quantitative in drug charging, simple and convenient in drug injection, friendly to the old people, clear in targetingperformance, and good in atomizing effects, the microparticle fog drops can be prepared, and the preparation manner of the fog drops can be chosen.

Disclosed is a system for medical procedure tracking, evaluation and assistance, wherein one or more video cameras, one or more acoustic sensors or one or more medical device interfaces acquire video, audio or medical device feeds from a medical treatment setting. A scene evaluation module detects scene related features in the video, audio or medical device feeds. A procedure compliance assessment module compares one or more scene related features detected and reported by the scene evaluation module to a list of expected actions or equipment usages associated with the procedure being performed in the treatment setting. A procedure assistance module provides compliance based procedure related action recommendations or instructions from within the list of expected actions or equipment usages.

The invention discloses a peach tree fruit thinning researching method. According to the peach tree fruit thinning researching method, by means of treatment setting, fruit size measurement, fruit shape index measurement, single fruit weight measurement, sugar content, organic acid content and soluble solid content measurement and analysis, an optimal fruit thinning time is selected scientifically among different fruit thinning time options, a fruit grower is guided to carry out fruit thinning at the optimal fruit thinning time, and therefore the method has great significance for the improvement of the yield and quality of peach trees and the enhancement of market competitiveness.

The invention discloses a biconical vena cava filter system for temporary use. A filter main body includes three parts, namely a filtering portion, a fixing portion and tail fibers, wherein the filtering portion is represented as a conical spring structure; the fixing portion is a conical spring structure; and the filtering portion and the fixing portion follow smooth connection by virtue of a memory alloy wire. The filter main body is formed by implementing heat treatment setting on a memory alloy wire on a special mold; a round ball is fixed to a circle of spring, which has the largest diameter, in conical springs of the filtering portion and a round ball is fixed to a circle of spring, which has the largest diameter, in conical springs of the fixing portion. The filter (the filter system) further comprises a threaded connecting component and an extension wire. With the adoption of a biconical structure, the filter can achieve smooth release and recovery, and contact points of the filter with a vascular wall are reduced; the filter, which is fixedly located within the inferior vena cava in a double-layer and multi-spherical-point mode, can prevent injury of blood vessels as well as hyperplasia and climbing of endangium; and the filter, even being implanted for a long time, can be smoothly withdrawn.

The invention relates to the field of aero-engines, in particular to a heat treatment setting method for a high-strength elastic material coil spring. The coil spring part requires a large deformation space, the intervals between circles of the coil spring part are not equal, the intervals of the inner circles are large while the intervals of the outer circles are small, the deformation rule is violated, and the outer diameter is limited. A ring type heat treatment setting clamp is adopted, the coil spring part is screwed and put into the setting clamp, and pins of different sizes are nailed into the intervals between the circles, thereby ensuring that the intervals of the inner circles are large while the intervals of the outer circles are small for heat treatment setting processing, and ensuring that the intervals between the circles are different. A vacuum furnace is adopted, heat preservation is carried out at the temperature of 800+ / -10 DEG C for 60-75 min, and then carried out again for 120-135 min after the furnace is cooled to be 700+ / -10 DEG C, and argon is injected for cooling. Thus, the problems of deformation and non-uniform intervals after the coil spring is formed are solved through adopting the heat treatment setting; it is ensured that the sizes of the intervals of the inner circles and the outer circles of the coil spring meet the design requirements; and the size stability is also ensured.

The present invention relates to methods for remotely tuning treatment parameters in movement disorder therapy systems where the subject and clinician are located remotely from each other. The present invention still further provides methods of quantifying movement disorders for the treatment of patients who exhibit symptoms of such movement disorders including, but not limited to, Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonism, Dystonia, Chorea, and Huntington's disease, Ataxia, Tremor and Essential Tremor, Tourette syndrome, stroke, and the like. The present invention yet further relates to methods of remotely tuning a therapy device using objective quantified movement disorder symptom data to determine the therapy setting or parameters to be transmitted and provided to the subject via his or her therapy device. The present invention also provides treatment and tuning remotely, allowing for home monitoring of subjects.

The present invention relates to methods for remotely tuning treatment parameters in movement disorder therapy systems where the subject and clinician are located remotely from each other. The present invention still further provides methods of quantifying movement disorders for the treatment of patients who exhibit symptoms of such movement disorders including, but not limited to, Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonism, Dystonia, Chorea, and Huntington's disease, Ataxia, Tremor and Essential Tremor, Tourette syndrome, stroke, and the like. The present invention yet further relates to methods of remotely tuning a therapy device using objective quantified movement disorder symptom data to determine the therapy setting or parameters to be transmitted and provided to the subject via his or her therapy device. The present invention also provides treatment and tuning remotely, allowing for home monitoring of subjects.

A system and method for patient data processing during diagnosis and therapy of a patient's sleep disorder breathing. The system and method includes providing diagnostic providers and therapy device providers with a simple and fast way to generate a clinical diagnosis from a diagnostic device and to transfer that patient's record and diagnostic data to the therapy provider responsible for the patient's ongoing care. The patient may be automatically assigned therapy devices having predetermined therapy settings that are based on the patient's record and diagnostic data.

The invention provides a non-invasive skin treatment device (100) comprising an r.f. treatment electrode (10); a return electrode (40); an r.f. generator (20) configured and arranged such that, during treatment, an r.f. treatment signal is applied between the r.f. treatment electrode (10) and the return electrode (40) for heating an inner region (15) of skin; an impedance measurement circuit (35) configured and arranged to measure, before treatment of the inner region, an initial skin impedance (Zo) between the r.f. treatment electrode (10) and the return electrode (40); and a treatment settings determiner (30) configured and arranged to determine, before treatment of the inner region (15), treatment settings associated with the r.f. treatment signal depending on the initial skin impedance (Zo) and on a dimension of the r.f. treatment electrode (10) in the contact plane, the treatment settings comprising at least one of a treatment duration (TD) associated with a desired treatment result, and an r.f. electrical parameter associated with the r.f. treatment signal. The skin treatment device (100) further comprises a controller (25) configured and arranged to consecutively activate the impedance measurement circuit (35) and the treatment settings determiner (30) before treatment of the inner region (15), configure the r.f. generator (20) to provide the r.f. treatment signal according to the treatment settings, and activate the r.f. generator (20) to apply the r.f. treatment signal to the inner region (15) for the treatment duration (TD). The invention is based on the insight obtained from multiple measurements made during the creation of microscopic thermal lesions in an inner region of skin by applying r.f. measurement and treatment signals. By analyzing the histological and heating results, a relationship was obtained between the initial impedance (Zo), the dimension of the r.f. treatment electrode (10), and the treatment settings required to obtain a particular skin treatment result. This relationship has been found to be relatively constant for different subjects, different treatment locations on the body and different skin moisture contents. The invention makes it possible to preset or predetermine, i.e. in advance, the treatment duration (TD) and / or the r.f. electrical parameters associated with the r.f. treatment signal accurately enough to avoid undesired skin damage during the treatment. The device can be simpler, as it is no longer essential to continuously monitor the impedance during treatment to determine the onset of undesired skin damage, such as ablation, which is the safety feature known from conventional devices.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method of treating cancer in a patient comprising administering to the patient an immune checkpoint inhibitor wherein the patient has been diagnosed with a cancer having an FGFR genetic alteration and has been pre-treated with an FGFR inhibitor, such as Erdatinib.

Methods and systems are provided for automatically configuring a first medical device. In accordance with the methods and the systems, a computing system can obtain prescription information for a patient. The prescription information comprises a device prescription. The computing system can transform the prescription information into first configuration data comprising therapy settings for a first medical device referenced by the device prescription. The computing system can cause automatic configuration of the first medical device based on communicating the first configuration data to the first medical device.

The invention discloses an airwave cold and hot compress rapid switching and pressurization therapeutic apparatus. One side of a display screen is electrically connected with a control circuit board; required treatment conditions including pressure adjustment of water in a pipeline are rapidly adjusted or switched mainly through a man-machine display interface, seamless switching between cold compress and hot compress can be achieved through the equipment, waiting is not needed, and needed cold or hot treatment can be immediately carried out through direct switching; according to airwave pressure treatment, air is injected into and sucked out of a pipeline through an electromagnetic air pump, a set cavity is selectively inflated or sucked through opening and closing of an electromagnetic valve, the circulation effect of an air pressure layer of a limb pressure sleeve is completed, and synchronous treatment and cold compress or hot compress and airwave pressure treatment are carried out on a patient; the arranged interface is used for dynamically displaying a human body part, an air pressure circulation treatment part and a medium circulation dynamic graph of cold and hot compress treatment; the air bags are arranged in a stacked mode, so that backflow of interstitial fluid or blood can be effectively prevented.

The invention improves performance of a semiconductor device having a metal silicide layer by using a salicide process. After forming gate insulation films 7, gate electrodes 8a and 8b, and n<+> type semiconductor regions 9b and p<+> type semiconductor regions 10b for sources and drains are formed, a metal film and a barrier film are formed on a semiconductor substrate 1, and the metal film, the gate electrodes 8a and 8b, the n<+> type semiconductor regions 9b and the p<+> type semiconductor regions 10b are reacted with one another by executing a first heat treatment, whereby a metal silicide layer 41 formed of mono-silicide MSi of a metal element M constituting the metal film is formed. Thereafter, the barrier film and the unreacted metal film are removed, and thereafter the metal silicide layer 41 is stabilized by executing a second heat treatment. Hereafter, a treatment setting the temperature of the semiconductor substrate 1 higher than the heat treatment temperature of the second heat treatment is not executed. The heat treatment temperature of the second heat treatment is set lower than a temperature at which the lattice size of the disilicide MSi2 of the metal element M coincides with that of the semiconductor substrate 1.

A content reproduction apparatus includes a storage unit storing a plurality of content files and performs treatments by playing the content files stored in the storage unit. The content reproduction apparatus also includes a treatment setting unit configured to set a treatment based on a treatment condition input by a user; a content file obtaining unit configured to obtain, from the storage unit, a content file corresponding to the treatment set by the treatment setting unit; and an edit-and-output unit configured to play the content file obtained by the content file obtaining unit or the content file edited according to an instruction of the user.

The invention discloses a biconical vena cava filter system for temporary use. A filter main body includes three parts, namely a filtering portion, a fixing portion and tail fibers, wherein the filtering portion is represented as a conical spring structure; the fixing portion is a conical spring structure; and the filtering portion and the fixing portion follow smooth connection by virtue of a memory alloy wire. The filter main body is formed by implementing heat treatment setting on a memory alloy wire on a special mold; a round ball is fixed to a circle of spring, which has the largest diameter, in conical springs of the filtering portion and a round ball is fixed to a circle of spring, which has the largest diameter, in conical springs of the fixing portion. The filter (the filter system) further comprises a threaded connecting component and an extension wire. With the adoption of a biconical structure, the filter can achieve smooth release and recovery, and contact points of the filter with a vascular wall are reduced; the filter, which is fixedly located within the inferior vena cava in a double-layer and multi-spherical-point mode, can prevent injury of blood vessels as well as hyperplasia and climbing of endangium; and the filter, even being implanted for a long time, can be smoothly withdrawn.

The invention relates to the technical field of automobile interior lining processes, in particular to T / 21S single-sided cloth for automobile interior skin. The T / 21S single-sided cloth comprises the following process: step 1, weaving a gray fabric; step 2, performing after-treatment setting. The T / 21S single-sided cloth disclosed by the invention has the beneficial effects that by changing the pin arrangement and after-treatment setting process of the traditional knitting technology, the skin base cloth can meet the requirements of the tension, tear and static load tensile strength, the gram weight and thickness can be reduced, and the usage cost is reduced.

Methods and systems are provided for configuring therapy settings of a medical device for a specific patient. Patient data input via a non-medical device can be received. A value of a total daily dose of insulin for the specific patient can be obtained from the patient data. Based upon the value of the total daily dose, a set of therapy settings for the specific patient can be computed. The medical device can be automatically programmed with the set of therapy settings to complete set up of the medical device so that the medical device is configured for the specific patient.

The invention discloses a three-layer co-extruded rapid bidirectionally stretched wide polyethylene composite film and a preparation method thereof and relates to a polyethylene film and a packaging material. The film comprises three polyethylene film layers orderly comprising a surface layer, a barrier layer and a heat-sealing layer from outside to inside. The surface layer and the heat-sealing layer are prepared from low density polyethylene, metallocene polyethylene, ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene, a slipping agent and an antistatic agent. The barrier layer is prepared from ethene / vinyl alcohol copolymer resin. The preparation method comprises mother material pretreatment, fusion, plastification and heating of all layers of resin raw materials, filtration for impurity removal, extrusion and flake fluid discharge, cooling to form a glassy casting sheet with uniform thickness on the surface of a cooling roller when the flake fluid flows through the surface of the cooling roller, vertical stretching processes of preheating, drawing and heat treatment setting in a vertical stretching unit, film transverse stretching processes of preheating, drawing, heat treatment setting and cooling in a transverse stretching machine, film traction and rolling for formation of a large coil of a film, and film cutting for finished product formation.

The present invention relates to production of normal temperature filtering base cloth, and is especially production process of reinforced polyester filament base cloth. The production process includes the steps of heat treatment of polyester filament at 100-140 deg.c for 1-4 hr, and the subsequent twisting, warp beaming and weaving, and may include one other heat treatment setting step at 80-120 deg.c for 0.5-1 hr after the twisting step. The production process can produce normal temperature filtering base cloth reaching the national standard, and is suitable for industrial production.