Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus having low invasive property to a patient, which is capable of reducing smooth muscle cells reproducing in a damaged portion of a blood vessel to cause restenosis or suppressing the adhesion of hematopoietic stem cells by a sound pressure wave generated when bubbles shrink and disappear, the bubbles being generated by irradiating the inside of a blood vessel with high-strength pulse light and generating steam bubbles, and also which is capable of adjusting the sound pressure of the sound pressure wave to be induced by adjusting the shape and largeness of the steam bubbles to be generated. SOLUTION: This vascular restenosis preventive therapeutic apparatus reduces the smooth muscle cells reproducing in an operated region after angioplasty by the expansion of a blood vessel by the sound pressure wave induced by irradiation with high-strength pulse light, the generation of the steam bubbles, and the collapse of the steam bubbles. The apparatus generates the steam bubbles where the length of a lateral direction relative to a high-strength pulse light irradiating direction is 50-500% in size with respect to the length of a lengthwise direction, and by which the smooth muscle cells are damaged by sound pressure when the sound pressure wave induced by the collapse of the steam bubbles hits the wall of the blood vessel. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tubule which is used by inserting it into a lumen part of a tubular body or a space part of a structure, can judge the bending direction of the tubule tip by a sensor at the tubule tip by illuminating a light, and furthermore, can bend the tubule tip in an arbitrary direction by an actuator at the tubule tip. SOLUTION: This tubule is to be used by inserting it into the lumen part of the tubular body or the space part of the structure, and includes a device sensing light illumination and/or the actuator operated by light illumination at the tubule tip. The tubule for internal observation or internal processing has a light transmission means in the tubule, irradiates light to the device and/or the actuator by the light transmission means, and monitors and/or controls the bending degree of the tubule tip by the action of the device or the actuator. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus having low invasive property to a patient, which is capable of reducing smooth muscle cells reproducing in a damaged portion of a blood vessel to cause restenosis or suppressing the adhesion of hematopoietic stem cells from adhering by a sound pressure wave generated when bubbles shrink and disappear, the bubbles being generated by irradiating the inside of a blood vessel with high-strength pulse light by a high-strength pulse light irradiating means and generating steam bubbles inside the blood vessel. SOLUTION: A vascular restenosis preventive therapeutic apparatus reduces the smooth muscle cells which perform evaluated migration/fixation and growth in an operated region after angioplasty by the expansion of a blood vessel by an acoustic pressure wave induced by irradiation with high-strength pulse light. This apparatus includes a high-strength pulse light irradiating means capable of inducing a sound pressure wave inside the blood vessel. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI