Abstract: A system for delivering energy into a body tissue. A tissue puncturing device is adapted to puncture a tissue surface and generate micro-channels from the tissue surface into the body tissue. A stimulator is adapted to deliver energy to the body tissue over or adjacent to the micro-channels.

Abstract: A system for delivering energy into a body tissue. A tissue puncturing device is adapted to puncture a tissue surface and generate micro-channels from the tissue surface into the body tissue. A stimulator is adapted to deliver energy to the body tissue over or adjacent to the micro-channels.

Abstract: A method and system for guiding a drill or nail to intersect both bone and an aperture in an implanted implant. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a vector is defined interconnecting a path of a tool or cross-implant and the bone and implanted implant. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the vector is defined using a light source and two sensors or a light source and a sensor which is on an opposite side of said bone from said source.

Abstract: The invention provides a device for detecting a moving embolism in a blood vessel. One or more sources of electromagnetic radiation deliver electromagnetic radiation to the blood vessel. First and second optical detectors, positioned at a downstream and an upstream location, respectively, along the flow axis of the blood vessel, detect electromagnetic radiation emitted by the sources at the downstream and upstream locations, after having been reflected from, or transmitted through, the blood vessel. A processor monitors one or more parameters of the electromagnetic radiation detected by the downstream and upstream detectors. An embolus in the blood vessel is detected when a transient change in a monitored parameter is first detected by the downstream detector, and, after a time lag, is then detected by the upstream detector.

Abstract: A speaker adaptation system and method for speech models of symbols displays a multi-word symbol to be spoken as a symbol. The supervised adaptation system and method has unsupervised adaptation for multi-word symbols, limited to the set of words associated with each multi-word symbol.

Abstract: A speaker adaptation system and method for speech models of symbols displays a multi-word symbol to be spoken as a symbol. In another embodiment of the invention, the adaptation system and method has unsupervised adaptation for multi-word symbols, limited to the set of words associated with each multi-word symbol.