Patent ID: 8071534
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: A61K,A61P,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of treatment for biological tissues, the method including: (a) positioning an effective amount of a thermal target material at a treatment site of a patient, the treatment site comprising a location adjacent to biological tissue to be treated, and the thermal target material including carbon molecules, the carbon molecules having microwave absorption properties such that a mixture of the carbon molecules in water at a concentration of 0.0277 moles per 100 milliliters of water reaches the boiling temperature of the water in approximately 52.3% of the time required for 100 milliliters of the water to reach its boiling temperature in response to microwave radiation at 2.45 GHz at the power level generated by a 1500 watt microwave oven; and (b) directing an effective quantity of microwave energy to the thermal target material, the effective quantity of microwave energy being a quantity at a given wavelength sufficient to heat biological tissue adjacent to the treatment site to a treatment temperature by heat energy radiated from the thermal target material, without increasing the temperature of nearby tissue to the treatment temperature.