Patent ID: 7215995
Filing Date: 2007-05-08
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. A method of treating disease tissue in a human through the application of a specific and selective electric or electromagnetic field to the disease tissue in the human, comprising the steps of: a. Determining the voltage and current output that produces a 20 mV/cm electric field in the diseased tissue of the human; b. Constructing an anatomic model of human diseased tissue showing all the pertinent tissues and structures through which the current passes between the skin overlying one side of the diseased tissue through the skin on the opposite side of the diseased tissue; c. Constructing an analytic model of the diseased tissue from which size parameters are determined for each of the tissues and structures through which the current passes between the anterior and posterior skin surfaces enclosing the diseased tissue; d. Constructing a planar circuit model of the diseased tissue giving the impedance and current flow in detail of all the structures and tissues through which the current must flow to achieve a 20 mV/cm electric field in the diseased tissue; e. Computing the electric field amplitude (20 mV/cm) in the diseased tissue as equal to the targeted diseased tissue current density divided by the targeted diseased tissue conductivity; and f. Applying the computed voltage and current to the diseased tissue of the human.