Patent ID: 7648498

Claim:
An irradiation device for irradiating a living organism with electromagnetic radiation to influence a biological structure within the organism, said irradiation device comprising: an interface that acquires structure-specific data that define a biological target structure in an organism to be influenced by irradiation with electromagnetic radiation; a frequency pattern storage unit in which a number of defined resonant frequency patterns are stored, said defined resonant frequency patterns being respectively allocated to different biological structures, each defined resonant frequency pattern being defined as a frequency pattern of electromagnetic radiation representing an acoustic-electromagnetic signature of the allocated biological target structure for targeted setting of the allocated biological structure into a state of resonance; a frequency pattern selection unit connected to said interface that selects, dependent on the structure-specific data acquired by said interface, one of the defined resonant frequency patterns stored in said frequency pattern storage unit; a frequency generator having a frequency synthesizer that emits an electrical signal to produce electromagnetic radiation having a frequency pattern; a transmission antenna supplied with said electrical signal that radiates said electromagnetic radiation having said frequency pattern into a radiation volume in which said organism is disposed; and a control unit connected to said frequency generator and to said frequency pattern selection unit, said control unit controlling said frequency generator, dependent on the selected, defined resonant frequency pattern, to emit an electrical signal that causes said transmission antenna to radiate electromagnetic radiation into said radiation volume having the selected, defined resonant frequency pattern, and having an intensity and duration defined by said control unit.