Patent ID: 6464625
Filing Date: 2002-10-15
Classification: A61B,A61N,H01J

Abstract:
A therapeutic method for denaturing or killing Helicobacter pylori within the body of a patient, said method comprising:providing a radiation source for inactivating the H. pylon, providing an elongated flexible shaft for transesophageal insertion into the stomach of the patient, providing a radiation distribution head at a distal end of the flexible shaft for supplying the radiation from the source to the stomach, producing x-ray radiation between an anode and a cathode located within the distribution head, inserting the distribution head into the stomach, causing the radiation to be transferred from the head to the epithelium of the stomach surrounding the head of the instrument in an amount sufficient to debilitate or kill Helicobacter pylori carried on the epithelium of the stomach.