Abstract: A method for treating a tumor, comprising identifying a tumor as a prostate cancer tumor and implanting in the tumor identified as a prostate cancer tumor, at least one diffusing alpha-emitter radiation therapy (DaRT) source with a suitable radon release rate and for a given duration, such that the source provides during the given duration a cumulated activity of released radon between 7 Mega becquerel (MBq) hour and 14.7 MBq hour, per centimeter length.

Abstract: This present invention is a novel method and wearable device for stimulating positive DNA gene expression and mitigating negative DNA gene expression in order to improve health and wellness. The invention's unique characteristics include the application of multiple modalities, their unique configuration for safe, low-power application, the wearable device's unique arrangement in a flat, flexible configuration for elastic contouring with comfort required for an extended period of wearing, and the ability to optimize and personalize the parameters and mixing among such modalities. The invention further combines biometric feedback data with Artificial Intelligence analytic capabilities, to facilitate the identification and characterization of DNA resonant frequencies, and associated “stimulus-response” modeling associated with such biological interactions.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for systems, methods, and devices for facilitating conception. According to the present disclosure, a conception facilitating device may comprise at least one frame and at least one base. In some embodiments, the at least one frame may be configured to at least partially surround the at least one base. In some aspects, the conception facilitating device may be configured to be insertable into a vaginal canal. The conception facilitating device may be comfortably inserted into a vaginal canal for a period of time, which may increase the possibility of conception.

Abstract: Actuator (1) for a medical device (100), comprising an electromotor, a mechanical transmission, and magnetic coupling means arranged for transmitting a mechanical torque from the electromotor to the mechanical transmission when said electromotor is powered by an energy source, wherein said electromotor and a first part of the magnetic coupling means kinematically linked to the electromotor are arranged and hermetically sealed in a first casing module, and wherein said mechanical transmission and a second part of the coupling means kinematically linked to said mechanical transmission are arranged in a second casing module, said first and second casing modules comprising each complementary fastening means such that said first and second casing modules can be removably connected to each other in such a way that said first and second parts of the magnetic coupling means magnetically couple together upon connection of said first and second casing modules.

Abstract: A mesh deployment device is configured to place a surgical mesh on tissue retro muscularly. In particular, the mesh deployment device includes an arm assembly that is transitionable between a retracted configuration, in which, stationary and covering arms are in superposed relation such that the surgical mesh is supported by the supporting arm therebetween, and a deployed configuration, in which, the stationary, covering, and supporting arms are circumferentially spaced apart to support the surgical mesh thereon.

Abstract: An inflatable penile prosthesis can include, a reservoir, an inflatable member and a pump assembly. The pump assembly can include at least one valve comprising an entry portion, a middle portion, an exit portion, and exit tube interface, and a valve member. The exit portion can include a first landing portion including an interior portion, the interior portion of the first landing portion being semicircular about a longitudinal exit axis, the longitudinal exit axis extending through a center of the exit portion parallel to a direction that an exit tube interface extends from the exit portion, and a first channel portion adjacent to the first landing portion and including an interior portion, the interior portion of the first channel portion being farther from the longitudinal exit axis than the interior portion of the first landing portion.

Abstract: Brachytherapy templates and template holders can be adjustable relative to a patient's anatomy. One template includes a disposable portion with an aperture layer that includes first apertures and a patient contact layer that includes an adhesive on a surface thereof. The patient contact layer is formed from a flexible material. The template also includes a reusable portion that includes aperture plates. A locking mechanism can lock catheters firmly in place. One template holder includes a template compartment retainer constructed to hold a brachytherapy template, and a perineum attachment component is connected to the template compartment retainer by a connecting portion. The perineum attachment component includes a perineum attachment portion formed from a flexible material.

Abstract: An intra-oral device for positioning oral tissues during medical treatment, for example, radiation treatment. The device includes upper and lower dental arch members configured to engage the maxillary and mandibular teeth or edentulous arch(es) of a patient, respectively. Moldable material is maintained within channels formed in the dental arch members by partially extruding the material through keyways formed in the arch members during the bite mold process. The upper and lower dental arch members are operatively coupled to provide a dental arch assembly. A protective element to displace or depress a patients tongue is secured at a suitable working position with respect to the dental arch assembly via a threaded strut adjustably coupled between the protective element and a support structure disposed between the dental arch members.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle-type mobile infectious disease clinic, and more particularly, to a mobile infectious disease clinic, which is a vehicle-type mobile infectious disease clinic, that allows a test subject to be tested by a healthcare provider using an infectious disease test kit while exposure of the body parts is minimized and the healthcare provider and the test subject are isolated in the vehicle-type mobile infectious disease clinic, that performs sterilization of an infectious disease using an ultraviolet C (UV-C) lamp to reduce the time taken for disinfecting the clinic, and that allows the light radiation intensity of the UV-C lamp to be adaptively adjusted according to the body temperature of the test subject.

Abstract: An irradiation method and system for irradiating a target volume, the method comprising: providing thermal neutron absorbing nuclides (such as in the form of a high neutron cross-section agent) at the target volume; and producing neutrons by irradiating nuclei in or adjacent to the target volume with a beam of particles consisting of any one or more of protons, deuterons, tritons and heavy ions, thereby prompting production of the neutrons through non-elastic collisions between the atoms in the path of the beam (including the target) and the particles. The neutron absorbing nuclides absorb neutrons produced in the non-elastic collisions, thereby producing capture products or fragments that irradiate the target volume.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes kits for surgical repair of soft tissue defects, including hernias. The kits include any combination of components selected from an implantable sheet, at least one loop tie, a delivery tool, a positioner, a rolling device, and a insertion member. Packaging for the kits and/or components and methods of using the kits and/or components are also provided.

Abstract: Example methods and systems for photon energy synthesis and introducing energy modulation into radiation treatment planning process and delivery process are provided. Example methods comprise obtaining, via a linear accelerator, a first photon energy beam dosimetric data, a second photon energy beam dosimetric data, and an intermediate photon energy beam dosimetric data, and fitting the first photon energy beam dosimetric data and the second photon energy beam dosimetric data according to a preset fitting coefficient. A synthesized photon beam is then generated from dosimetric data from the fitted first photon energy beam dosimetric data and the fitted second photon energy beam dosimetric data. Further, continuously variable photon energies can be derived, where two or more existing photon energy beams are combined linearly and applied to both forward and inverse radiation planning modules for a radiation treatment plan.

Abstract: A method of radiotherapy treatment planning involves dynamic target tracking and beam redirection. A set of 3D images of a patient reflecting a movement of the patient is obtained, and each image is deformably registered with one reference image. The accumulated dose is calculated as the sum of the dose distribution over all phases in dependence of the patient movement and the model of the delivery machine, the dose distribution for each phase being deformed by means of the deformation map for the respective phase, to match the reference image.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method, device, apparatus, and storage medium for sleep monitoring. The method includes: monitoring physical sign information of a user in response to receiving a monitoring command; determining sleep quality information of the user according to the physical sign information of the user, wherein the physical sign information comprises at least breathing information.

Abstract: The present application provides a massager for male genitalia. A user may insert his penis into a massage sleeve through an opening. A relative movement is generated between the massage sleeve and the penis to simulate a thrusting motion during sexual intercourse. The massage sleeve simulates a vaginal environment, and performs a massage to provide massaging stimulation, and a reciprocating movement to provide reciprocating stimulation, or the like. In addition, the massage of the user's penis is implemented during the simulation of a back-and-forth thrusting motion. Therefore, an all-around automatic massage of the penis is implemented, and the entire massage process is relaxing and pleasurable.

Abstract: An electromechanical stimulation system for treating tinnitus comprising a proximal unit (10), configured to be placed proximate to a user's ear (1), and an input interface (50) configured to be operated by the user. The proximal unit comprises an electromechanical device (30) configured to transmit mechanical vibrations (35) with predetermined frequency (f), intensity (A) and waveform, to tissues proximate to the user's ear; a control unit (20), configured to actuate the electromechanical device in such a way that the frequency, the intensity and the waveform of the mechanical vibrations can be modified; a transceiver element (40) adapted to receive control signals (45) for the control unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for reconstructing fluence map. The system may obtain a plurality of radiation tasks based on a radiotherapy plan. Each of the plurality of radiation tasks may include a radiation field corresponding to the radiation task. For each of the plurality of radiation tasks, the system may determine whether a shape change between a radiation field corresponding to the radiation task and a radiation field corresponding to a preceding radiation task exceeds a shape change threshold. The system may determine a fluence map corresponding to the radiation task based on a first determination result of whether the shape change between the radiation field corresponding to the radiation task and the radiation field corresponding to the preceding radiation task exceeds the shape change threshold.

Abstract: A radiation treatment device is provided. The device includes an imaging unit and a single radiotherapy unit adjacent to a second end of the imaging unit. The imaging unit includes a first opening at a first end of the imaging unit adapted to receive a patient; at least one imaging source; and at least one imager arranged opposite the imaging source. The imaging source and the imager are rotatable about the rotational axis. The radiotherapy unit includes a source body carrying radioactive sources and a collimator having collimation channels. The collimation channels permit treatment beams emitted by the radioactive sources to be projected inside the imaging unit and focused at an intersection point located within an imaging beam of the imaging unit. The source body and the collimator are arranged concentric about the rotational axis and close a second opening at the second end.

Abstract: Disclosed is a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) stimulation navigation method comprising the steps of: acquiring a stimulation target point in the brain of a subject to which an electrical stimulus is to be applied; acquiring data on the spatial distribution of a magnetic vector potential of a coil for a TMS procedure; acquiring, from the spatial distribution, at least one parameter for acquiring an optimal stimulation condition for the stimulation target point; and by using the acquired parameter, calculating a position and direction of the coil satisfying the optimal stimulation condition for the stimulation target point.

Abstract: Featured is a robot and a needle delivery apparatus. Such a robot comprises a plurality of actuators coupled to control locating any of number of intervention specific medical devices such as intervention specific needle injectors. Such a robot is usable with image guided interventions using any of a number of types of medical imaging devices or apparatuses including MRI. The end-effector can include an automated low needle delivery apparatus that is configured for dose radiation seed brachytherapy injection. Also featured is an automated seed magazine for delivering seeds to such an needle delivery apparatus adapted for brachytherapy seed injection.