Abstract:
In a method for treating a carcinoma in a patient, a medicine is administered via the blood stream of the patient that appears, to the patient's immune system, that tissue of the carcinoma is an inflammation source. The medicine employs two active components that are coupled to each other in a form allowing administration of the two active components to the carcinoma via the blood stream of the patient. A first of the active components is at least one coupling molecule that specifically tethers to a target molecule formed by cancer tissue of the carcinoma. A second of the active ingredients is at least one signal molecule typical to inflammation, or at least one originating molecule encoding such a signal molecule, that induces the immune system of the body to attack the cancer cells.
Abstract:
A urological x-ray workstation has an x-ray source and an x-ray receiver that are respectively supported on device retainers of a device carrier located at the longitudinal side of a patient positioning table such that they can be positioned opposite one another and independently of one another in various positions on an orbit proceeding around a common center in a working plane oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.
Abstract:
A medicine for treatment of a carcinoma which can be supplied to the carcinoma via the circulatory system, contains two active components coupled to one another. The first active component is formed of at least one coupling molecule that specifically tethers to a target molecule formed by the cancer tissue. The second active component is formed of at least one signal molecule typical to inflammation, or of at least originating molecule encoding such a signal molecule.
Abstract:
In a system and method for x-ray brachytherapy, a probe is introduced into the body of a subject, the probe carrying an x-ray source that radiates x-rays into an exposure area outside of the probe within the body of the subject. A number of markers are located in or on the probe, that are detectable in an image generated by an imaging device. The markers are located in or on the probe in a known spatial relation to the exposure area, so that the position of the exposure area can be determined by identifying the markers in the displayed image.
Abstract:
A system includes at least one device that includes at least one device component. For a defined movement of the at least one device component, a movement axis and/or a movement direction may be selected by a selection element and may be identified by an activatable lighting element. The identified movement axis and/or the identified movement direction may be released by at least one actuation element, so that a desired movement of the at least one device component may be performed.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for recognizing tumorous living cell tissue. It furthermore relates to a method and to an apparatus for recognizing tumorous cell tissue at collected living cell tissue samples. In the method, electromagnetic radiation is emitted with local definition onto cell tissue by a radiation source and, after deactivation of the radiation source, the decay behavior of the inherent fluorescence intensity of the cell tissue excited by the electromagnetic radiation is detected at the cell tissue in a time resolved and spectrally resolved manner at known sampling rate(s) for at least one wavelength using a detector. The difference autocorrelation function C(t) of the intensity decay behavior is determined using the determined measured intensity values, the fractal dimension DF for the respective irradiated cell tissue is calculated from this and the value of the fractal dimension DF is used for a classification with respect to a presence of a tumor in the respective irradiated cell tissue.
Abstract:
In order to determine the aggressiveness of a prostate tumor, a diagnostic substance is administered to a patient that includes a biomarker provided with a first label that is detectable with a detection device and that specifically binds to a VEGF molecule, and that contains a biomarker that binds specifically to a target molecule that occurs uniformly in the endothelium of blood vessels of healthy tissue and the blood vessels of a prostate tumor, and that is provided with a second label that is detectable with the detection device independently of the first label.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a medicine for treatment of prostate cancer and a corresponding treatment method. The medicine can be supplied to a prostate tumor through the bloodstream, contains an active component and a binding component as well as ultrasound microbubbles. The binding component includes coupling molecules that specifically bind to a determined target molecule formed in the endothelium of tumor-associated blood vessels and that is typical of the tumor or the tumor stage. The active component contains at least one chemotherapeutic substance. The coupling molecules are bound to the outside of the microbubbles and active substance molecules are likewise bound to the outside of the microbubbles or are enclosed by the microbubbles.
Abstract:
A bellows for coupling a source of acoustic waves having an acoustic propagation medium, to a patient, has a geometrical modification in that region wherein the bellows can be seated against the patient for the introduction of acoustic waves into the patient. The geometrical modification in the propagation path of the acoustic waves generated by the source of acoustic waves shapes the acoustic waves in a designated (designed) manner. Additionally or alternatively, the bellows can have a section in the region that is formed of a different material than the rest of the bellows.
Abstract:
An optical hydrophone for measurement of the acoustic pressure distribution in a fluid medium has a light source that illuminates an area of a boundary region between an optically transparent body and the fluid medium. A light receiver measures the intensity of the light reflected from the illuminated area as a measurement of acoustic pressure, due to changes in the index of refraction of the fluid medium that are caused by the acoustic pressure. The illuminated area is smaller than the boundary surface formed between the optically transparent body and the fluid medium, thereby giving the hydrophone a longer service light and a high spatial resolution capacity.