Patent ID: 6605082
Filing Date: 2003-08-12
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A thermal treatment apparatus for thermally treating by irradiating living bodies with energy comprising:an energy supplying means for supplying energies for treatment; an energy irradiating means for irradiating living bodies with energies supplied; a treatment planning means for setting up treatment areas to be irradiated with energies as treatment area information; a setup means for setting up treatment conditions based on treatment area information; an image information input means for inputting image information for diagnosis; an information overlaying means for overlaying the setup treatment area information on the input image information; an information manipulating means for manipulating at least one of the treatment area information or the image information; and said energy irradiating means including an elongated insertion part adapted to be inserted into a living organism and an emission part installed in said elongated insertion part to emit energy, said elongated insertion part including moving means for moving a position of said emission part in a longitudinal direction of said elongated insertion part and angle changing means for changing an emission angle of the energy emitted by the emission part in accordance with movement of the emission part by said moving means.