Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for treating target cells in a target tissue. The method comprises: determining frequency and magnitude of a periodic force to be applied to the target cells to trigger a mechanically-induced apoptotic process in the target cells; and generating a sequence of programmed cycles of waves to the target tissue to apply the periodic forces to the target cells for a period of time. In some cases, the frequency, magnitude and the period of time are determined based at least in part on the type of target cells or mechanical properties of the target cells.

Abstract: Provided is a method for treating metastatic disease or any other tumor that cannot easily or readily localized or localized at all using immersion mechanotherapy. The method includes providing a vessel containing an amount of medium for immersing at least a portion of a subject, and applying one or more programmed cycles of ultrasound waves to the subject through the medium for a pre-determined period of time. Also provided is a device for implementing the immersion mechanotherapy.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a method for visualising a spatially resolved data set (D) using an illumination model (BM) is proposed, with a datum (D(&agr;, &bgr;, &ggr;)) of the data set (D) being associated in each case with a volume element (V) whose position is described by coordinates (&agr;, &bgr;, &ggr;) in a measurement coordinate system (Km). The data (D(&agr;, &bgr;, &ggr;)) are loaded as at least one texture (T&agr;i, T&bgr;j, T&ggr;k) into graphics hardware (4) in order to generate a pictorial representation (5) in a projection space. The illumination model (BM) is evaluated in the measurement coordinate system (KM).

Abstract: A method for visualizing a spatially resolved data set, the data of which are in each case associated with a volume element of which the position is described by coordinates in a non-Cartesian measurement coordinate system, the data M(rk, &thgr;j, zi) are loaded into a graphics engine [(1)] as texture maps (Trk, T&thgr;j, Tzi) and then a pictorial representation is generated through superposition of texture maps (Trk, T&thgr;j, Tzi).