Patent ID: 9387036
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: A61B,A61N

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for providing hyperthermia treatments to a breast having fatty mammary tissue surrounding tissue in need of said hyperthermia treatment, said fatty mammary tissue having a dielectric constant and a conductivity, comprising: a cavity for receiving the breast therein; a first radio frequency antenna operable to direct a radio frequency signal at a selected frequency into the breast received in the cavity, said radio frequency signal having a wavelength within the fatty mammary tissue; and a deposit adapted to be positioned in the fatty mammary tissue of the breast adjacent the tissue in need of said hyperthermia treatment, said deposit having at least one of a dielectric constant and conductivity greater than the dielectric constant and conductivity of the fatty mammary tissue and having a diameter within a range of about 0.5 times to 0.16 times the wavelength of the radio frequency signal within the fatty mammary tissue whereby the deposit, when positioned in the fatty mammary tissue adjacent the tissue in need of said hyperthermia treatment, will be heated, at least partially by resonant heating, by the radio frequency signal, the heated deposit then supplying heat for said hyperthermia treatment to the tissue adjacent the deposit.