Abstract: A therapeutic microwave system comprises a support unit having two or more separable segments; a microwave power assembly positioned between two separated segments of the support unit and including two or more microwave power supply devices; position adjustment componentry; and a central processing unit. The system may further include a temperature sensor for monitoring a treated subject's exhaled air temperature in real time and adjusting microwave irradiation accordingly, and a cooling device for controlling the patient's brain temperature during treatment.

Abstract: A therapeutic microwave system comprises a support unit having two or more separable segments; a microwave power assembly positioned between two separated segments of the support unit and including two or more microwave power supply devices; position adjustment componentry; and a central processing unit. The system may further include a temperature sensor for monitoring a treated subject's exhaled air temperature in real time and adjusting microwave irradiation accordingly, and a cooling device for controlling the patient's brain temperature during treatment.

Abstract: A therapeutic microwave system comprises a support unit having two or more separable segments; a microwave power assembly positioned between two separated segments of the support unit and including two or more microwave power supply devices; position adjustment componentry; and a central processing unit. The system may further include a temperature sensor for monitoring a treated subject's exhaled air temperature in real time and adjusting microwave irradiation accordingly, and a cooling device for controlling the patient's brain temperature during treatment.

Abstract: The invention concerns noninvasive apparatus and methods for determining the internal temperature of the lungs in real time in connection with treatments that involve heating or cooling the lungs. The method involves using a specified apparatus preferably comprising a breathing tube, temperature sensor and other elements to measure the temperature of exhaled air, and optionally combining said measurement with other measurements and parameters, in order to calculate the internal lung temperature.

Abstract: An apparatus for cooling the brain of a patient includes a housing for engagement on a neck of the patient and one or more nozzles for receiving a coolant fluid from an external coolant source and providing a directed mist of the coolant. The nozzles are mounted within the housing and are aligned such that the mist of coolant is directed to the neck of the patient. The apparatus can include a brain temperature sensor operatively coupled to a controller to regulate the discharge of the mist of coolant to maintain a desired brain temperature.

Abstract: A microwave body heating system uses one or more focused beams of microwave energy. A fan beam or transversely scanned beam is directed to a narrow transverse section of a subject's body. The transversely scanned or fan beam is moved longitudinally down the body in a controlled sequential incremental manner. Scanning times, patterns and radiated power levels are controlled in experimentally predetermined or monitored formats to achieve desired levels of heating of an entire body or localized area. Microwave frequency energy is provided by one or more magnetron type devices in a variably positionable microwave power assembly which is longitudinally scanned under control of a motor device.

Abstract: Expandable enclosures for computer circuit boards include thermoelectric cooling for temperature control and are sealed to exclude dust and liquids. Expansion sections to house additional circuit boards are inserted between stacked sections with data and power interconnections between sections. The stacked configuration permits expansion of board capacity without increasing the lateral dimensions, or footprint, of the enclosure. Related components may also be housed.