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- the present invention relates generally to an auxiliary radiotherapy equipment, and more particularly to an innovative one which is involved with a human tissue radiation protector with auxiliary method of radiotherapy.
- a tissue expander is mainly used for expanding the human tissue, and structurally comprised of an elastic capsular bag (and/or a syringe connected to the capsular bag), as illustrated by ROC patent No. 67320 “self-sealing tissue expander”.
- a capsular bag is implanted under the skin of patients, and when necessary, filled with a predefined amount of (depending on the skin status and tolerance of patients) solution (e.g.: physiological saline) or air, so as to expand gradually the skin for skin transplantation or placing specific object under the skin (physiological saline bag or silica for false breast or breast enlargement).
- an airbag unit is implanted surgically into the human body, and then expanded by means of air injection to separate the human tissues or organs for subsequent medical activities.
- Such airbag unit is made of adsorbable materials, so it is not required to be taken out after implantation; yet, it can only separate the human tissues or organs other than accurately locating and detecting their position (special imaging method is required), so it is not suitable for high-accuracy radiotherapy.
- cancer cells When radiotherapy is applied to tumor(cancer cells), some normal cells close to the tumor (cancer cells) will be affected; according to the prevailing practice, the physician in charge of radiotherapy is obliged to control the radiation incidence angle and dosage, but finding it difficult to avoid damage against normal cells.
- the primary objective of the present invention is to provide a human tissue radiation protector with auxiliary method of radiotherapy, which could not only separate the tumor from the human organs or tissues, mitigate the damage of radiation against nearby tissue, but also locate easily them to improve the accuracy of radiotherapy.
- Another objective of the present invention is to provide a human tissue radiation protector with auxiliary radiotherapy, which could measure the dosage of radiation at different positions.
- the present invention provides a human tissue radiation protector, which comprising: an expander with a filling space, made of radiolucent materials, which can be implanted into the human tissue to separate the tumor from nearby human tissue or organs; a syringe, linked to the filling space, and used to input the predefined fluid into the filling space for expanding the expander; a marker, made of radiopaque materials, set onto the expander for the positioning of expander.
- the present invention also provides an auxiliary method of radiotherapy, whereby the expander of the human tissue radiation protector is arranged between the tumor and nearby human tissue or organs, so as to separate them and assist the expander in positioning via the help of the marker.
- the present invention also provides an auxiliary method of radiotherapy, whereby the expander is arranged between the tumor and nearby human tissue or organs, so as to separate them and assist the expander in positioning and also measuring the dosage using radiation dosage detector.
- FIG. 1 is a front view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a side view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 3( a )-( f ) is the radiograph of cotton thread is wound onto the surface of the expander.
- FIG. 4( a )-( f ) is the radiograph of the marker which is a thread or sheet containing a plurality of gold points (golden material).
- FIG. 5 is a front view of another preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a change chart of the radiation dosage of the present invention when normal tissues are separated from the tumor.
- FIG. 7 is the flow process charts for mice dosage verification test: (a) tissue expander. (b) mice for the test. (c) cutting the mice's peritoneal cavity to implant the tissue expander. (d) simulated positioning for radiotherapy of mice. (e) sectional imaging of mice. (f) radiotherapy treatment.
- FIG. 8 is the picture shot of the intestines of mice: (a) C: control group before radiation; (b) W: mice injected with liquid in the radiation protector; (c) A: mice injected with air in the radiation protector; (d) L: mice under direct radiation.
- the human tissue radiation protector 10 in a preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises: an expander 12 , a syringe 13 and a tube 14 linked to the expander 12 and syringe 13 ; said syringe 13 is used to inject fluid (air or solution) to the expander 12 ; said human tissue radiation protector 10 is characterized by that, it also comprising:
- a marker 15 made of radiopaque materials (e.g.: by X-ray), set onto the surface of the expander 12 or directly molded into the expander 12 , and used to assist in detecting the position of the expander 12 and localizing it in the human tissue; in the preferred embodiment, a cotton thread is wound onto the surface of the expander 12 as shown in FIG. 3 ; the marker 15 is a thread or sheet containing a plurality of gold points (golden material) as shown in FIG. 4 .
- radiopaque materials e.g.: by X-ray
- the human tissue radiation protector 10 is used for radiation therapy in a manner that the expander 12 is implanted between the tumor (cancer cells) and human tissues or organs, then liquid (air or solution) is injected by the syringe 13 so that the expander 12 is expanded to separate the tumor (cancer cells) from the human tissues or organs, enabling the physicians to conduct radiotherapy treatment without damage against the human tissues or organs.
- the marker 15 of the present invention is used to assist the expander 12 in accurate positioning to realize the effect of fixed scale.
- the human tissue radiation protector 20 in another preferred embodiment of the present invention has a similar structure compared with the human tissue radiation protector 10 ; its difference lies in that, multiple radiation dosage detectors 22 are set at different positions within the expander 24 (e.g.: the film or thermoluminescent dosimeter, TLD and chemical dosimeter capable of detecting electromagnetic radiation), so as to measure the radiation dosage at different positions of the expander 24 .
- the human tissue radiation protector 20 allows to evaluate the radiation dosage by the radiation dosage detectors 22 within the expander 24 , thus improving the accuracy of radiotherapy.
- the human tissue radiation protector of the present invention could not only separate the tumor from the human tissues or organs, mitigate the damage of radiation against nearby tissues, but also locate easily them to improve the accuracy of radiotherapy. Furthermore, with the setting of the radiation dosimeter, it is easier to detect and evaluate the radiation dosage at different positions of the expander, so as to enhance the accuracy of the radiotherapy.
- the present invention also provides an auxiliary method of radiotherapy, which allows to arrange the expander of the human tissue radiation protector between the tumor cells and nearby human tissues or organs; then, the syringe is extended out of the human body via the tube, so that the tumor cells are separated from the nearby human tissues or organs, and the marker is used to assist the expander in positioning, or the radiation dosimeter is used to detect the radiation dosage at different positions of the expander.
- mice are applied to radiotherapy test for verifying the efficacies of human tissue radiation protector for the mice' normal cells; as shown in the pictures in FIG. 7 , the mice are divided into 4 groups: control group (C): this group is not exposed to radiation, but reared by an animal center along with the mice under radiotherapy; test group (W): the human tissue radiation protector is put into the abdomen of the mice to separate the radiation and non-radiation areas, and then fill liquid into the expander; test group (A): the mice are put into the human tissue radiation protector, while expander is filled with air; and test group (L): the mice are subject to radiotherapy rather than put into the human tissue radiation protector, but subject to radiotherapy.
- control group (C) this group is not exposed to radiation, but reared by an animal center along with the mice under radiotherapy
- test group (W) the human tissue radiation protector is put into the abdomen of the mice to separate the radiation and non-radiation areas, and then fill liquid into the expander
- test group (A) the mice are put into the human tissue
- FIG. 8 shows real photos of the mice's large intestine already taken out; it can be seen that, for the mice not yet placed into the human tissue radiation protector, the large intestine is swollen by severe radiation exposure; as for the mice placed into the human tissue radiation protector, no matter the expander is filled with liquid or air, the large intestine is not swollen, showing that the human tissue radiation protector of the present invention could really protect normal tissues against radiation.
- the present invention could not only separate the tumor from the human organs or tissues, mitigate the damage of radiation against nearby tissues, but also locate easily them to improve the accuracy of radiotherapy.
- present invention not yet publicly available complies with the spirit of new patents, so the patent claims are made hereto.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a human tissue radiation protector with auxiliary method of radiotherapy, wherein said human tissue radiation protector comprises an interconnected expander, a syringe and a marker set onto the expander; said marker is made of radiopaque materials, which could assist the expander in positioning; as well as multiple radiation dosage detector capable of measurement the radiation dosage at different positions of the expander; said method allows to place the expander of the human tissue radiation protector between the tumor and nearby human tissues or organs so as to separate them, and assist the expander in positioning via the marker and measurement the radiation dosage via the radiation dosage detector.
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- 1. Field of the Invention
- The present invention relates generally to an auxiliary radiotherapy equipment, and more particularly to an innovative one which is involved with a human tissue radiation protector with auxiliary method of radiotherapy.
- 2. Description of Related Art
- A tissue expander is mainly used for expanding the human tissue, and structurally comprised of an elastic capsular bag (and/or a syringe connected to the capsular bag), as illustrated by ROC patent No. 67320 “self-sealing tissue expander”. According to the operating method of conventional tissue expander, a capsular bag is implanted under the skin of patients, and when necessary, filled with a predefined amount of (depending on the skin status and tolerance of patients) solution (e.g.: physiological saline) or air, so as to expand gradually the skin for skin transplantation or placing specific object under the skin (physiological saline bag or silica for false breast or breast enlargement).
- Secondly, as illustrated in US patent No. 20080033471 “Device System And Method For Tissue Displacement Or Separation”, an airbag unit is implanted surgically into the human body, and then expanded by means of air injection to separate the human tissues or organs for subsequent medical activities. Such airbag unit is made of adsorbable materials, so it is not required to be taken out after implantation; yet, it can only separate the human tissues or organs other than accurately locating and detecting their position (special imaging method is required), so it is not suitable for high-accuracy radiotherapy.
- When radiotherapy is applied to tumor(cancer cells), some normal cells close to the tumor (cancer cells) will be affected; according to the prevailing practice, the physician in charge of radiotherapy is obliged to control the radiation incidence angle and dosage, but finding it difficult to avoid damage against normal cells.
- If the tumor and normal cells could be fully separated, it is possible theoretically to reduce the damage against normal cells when conducting radiotherapy against cancer cells; however, as disclosed in aforementioned US patent, it is difficult to locate securely the airbag unit, leading to poor effect of radiotherapy; also, there lacks of a radiation protector unit that can separate the cancer cells and normal cells for radiotherapy treatment.
- The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a human tissue radiation protector with auxiliary method of radiotherapy, which could not only separate the tumor from the human organs or tissues, mitigate the damage of radiation against nearby tissue, but also locate easily them to improve the accuracy of radiotherapy.
- Another objective of the present invention is to provide a human tissue radiation protector with auxiliary radiotherapy, which could measure the dosage of radiation at different positions.
- The present invention provides a human tissue radiation protector, which comprising: an expander with a filling space, made of radiolucent materials, which can be implanted into the human tissue to separate the tumor from nearby human tissue or organs; a syringe, linked to the filling space, and used to input the predefined fluid into the filling space for expanding the expander; a marker, made of radiopaque materials, set onto the expander for the positioning of expander.
- The present invention also provides an auxiliary method of radiotherapy, whereby the expander of the human tissue radiation protector is arranged between the tumor and nearby human tissue or organs, so as to separate them and assist the expander in positioning via the help of the marker.
- Furthermore, the present invention also provides an auxiliary method of radiotherapy, whereby the expander is arranged between the tumor and nearby human tissue or organs, so as to separate them and assist the expander in positioning and also measuring the dosage using radiation dosage detector.
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FIG. 1 is a front view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention. -
FIG. 2 is a side view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention. -
FIG. 3( a)-(f) is the radiograph of cotton thread is wound onto the surface of the expander. -
FIG. 4( a)-(f) is the radiograph of the marker which is a thread or sheet containing a plurality of gold points (golden material). -
FIG. 5 is a front view of another preferred embodiment of the present invention. -
FIG. 6 is a change chart of the radiation dosage of the present invention when normal tissues are separated from the tumor. -
FIG. 7 is the flow process charts for mice dosage verification test: (a) tissue expander. (b) mice for the test. (c) cutting the mice's peritoneal cavity to implant the tissue expander. (d) simulated positioning for radiotherapy of mice. (e) sectional imaging of mice. (f) radiotherapy treatment. -
FIG. 8 is the picture shot of the intestines of mice: (a) C: control group before radiation; (b) W: mice injected with liquid in the radiation protector; (c) A: mice injected with air in the radiation protector; (d) L: mice under direct radiation. - Referring to
FIGS. 1 and 2 , the humantissue radiation protector 10 in a preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises: anexpander 12, asyringe 13 and atube 14 linked to theexpander 12 andsyringe 13; saidsyringe 13 is used to inject fluid (air or solution) to theexpander 12; said humantissue radiation protector 10 is characterized by that, it also comprising: - a
marker 15, made of radiopaque materials (e.g.: by X-ray), set onto the surface of theexpander 12 or directly molded into theexpander 12, and used to assist in detecting the position of theexpander 12 and localizing it in the human tissue; in the preferred embodiment, a cotton thread is wound onto the surface of theexpander 12 as shown inFIG. 3 ; themarker 15 is a thread or sheet containing a plurality of gold points (golden material) as shown inFIG. 4 . - With this design, the operating methods, features and efficacies of the human
tissue radiation protector 10 of the present invention are described below: - The human
tissue radiation protector 10 is used for radiation therapy in a manner that theexpander 12 is implanted between the tumor (cancer cells) and human tissues or organs, then liquid (air or solution) is injected by thesyringe 13 so that theexpander 12 is expanded to separate the tumor (cancer cells) from the human tissues or organs, enabling the physicians to conduct radiotherapy treatment without damage against the human tissues or organs. - Secondly, as the
expander 12 is made of soft materials that cannot be accurately located after being implanted into the human tissues, themarker 15 of the present invention, which is made of radiopaque materials, is used to assist theexpander 12 in accurate positioning to realize the effect of fixed scale. - Referring to
FIG. 5 , the humantissue radiation protector 20 in another preferred embodiment of the present invention has a similar structure compared with the humantissue radiation protector 10; its difference lies in that, multipleradiation dosage detectors 22 are set at different positions within the expander 24 (e.g.: the film or thermoluminescent dosimeter, TLD and chemical dosimeter capable of detecting electromagnetic radiation), so as to measure the radiation dosage at different positions of theexpander 24. With this design, the humantissue radiation protector 20 allows to evaluate the radiation dosage by theradiation dosage detectors 22 within theexpander 24, thus improving the accuracy of radiotherapy. - With the design of the marker, the human tissue radiation protector of the present invention could not only separate the tumor from the human tissues or organs, mitigate the damage of radiation against nearby tissues, but also locate easily them to improve the accuracy of radiotherapy. Furthermore, with the setting of the radiation dosimeter, it is easier to detect and evaluate the radiation dosage at different positions of the expander, so as to enhance the accuracy of the radiotherapy.
- It is thus learnt that, the present invention also provides an auxiliary method of radiotherapy, which allows to arrange the expander of the human tissue radiation protector between the tumor cells and nearby human tissues or organs; then, the syringe is extended out of the human body via the tube, so that the tumor cells are separated from the nearby human tissues or organs, and the marker is used to assist the expander in positioning, or the radiation dosimeter is used to detect the radiation dosage at different positions of the expander.
- The aforementioned efficacies of the human tissue radiation protector of the present invention are validated by means of in-vitro and in-vivo implementation:
- In-vitro Implementation: air and liquid is separately filled into the expander, the radiation dosage difference is simulated when normal cells near to 3 cm and 5 cm tumor cells are further pushed away 1 cm, 3 cm, 5 cm and 6 cm, separately by a radiation protector; then a clinical treatment planning system is used to calculate the radiation dosage of normal cells, and conduct radiation measurement by taking conventional thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) as the radiation dosage detector, with the results shown in
FIG. 6 , wherein W represents water filled into the expander, and A represents air filled into the expander; when the radiation protector is filled with liquid, and normal cells are pushed 3 cm away from 3 cm tumor cells, the received radiation dosage will be reduced efficiently by 50%; in other words, if normal cells are under the same radiation dosage, a human radiation protector could be used to push away normal cells, so the effect of radiotherapy could be raised by adding 50% radiation dosage to the tumor. - In-vivo Implementation: mice are applied to radiotherapy test for verifying the efficacies of human tissue radiation protector for the mice' normal cells; as shown in the pictures in
FIG. 7 , the mice are divided into 4 groups: control group (C): this group is not exposed to radiation, but reared by an animal center along with the mice under radiotherapy; test group (W): the human tissue radiation protector is put into the abdomen of the mice to separate the radiation and non-radiation areas, and then fill liquid into the expander; test group (A): the mice are put into the human tissue radiation protector, while expander is filled with air; and test group (L): the mice are subject to radiotherapy rather than put into the human tissue radiation protector, but subject to radiotherapy. - The mice in the animal center are sacrificed after 2 months to provide a further insight into the efficacies of the human tissue radiation protector for normal tissues.
FIG. 8 shows real photos of the mice's large intestine already taken out; it can be seen that, for the mice not yet placed into the human tissue radiation protector, the large intestine is swollen by severe radiation exposure; as for the mice placed into the human tissue radiation protector, no matter the expander is filled with liquid or air, the large intestine is not swollen, showing that the human tissue radiation protector of the present invention could really protect normal tissues against radiation. - To sum up, with the design of the marker and radiation dosage detector, the present invention could not only separate the tumor from the human organs or tissues, mitigate the damage of radiation against nearby tissues, but also locate easily them to improve the accuracy of radiotherapy. Hence, as present invention not yet publicly available complies with the spirit of new patents, so the patent claims are made hereto.
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1. A human tissue radiation protector, which comprising:
an expander with a filling space, made of radiolucent materials, which can be implanted into the human tissue to separate the tumor from nearby human tissue or organs;
a syringe, linked to the filling space, and used to input the predefined fluid into the filling space for expanding the expander; and
a marker, made of radiopaque materials, set onto the expander for the positioning of expander.
2. The structure defined in claim 1 , wherein it comprises multiple radiation dosage detectors, which are set at different positions within the expander to measure the radiation dosage at different positions of the expander.
3. The structure defined in claim 1 , wherein said marker is set onto the surface of the expander or directly molded into the expander.
4. The structure defined in claim 3 , wherein said marker is of a thread or sheet pattern.
5. The structure defined in claim 4 , wherein said marker is a thread containing a plurality of gold points.
6. The structure defined in claim 5 , wherein a plurality of gold points is made of golden materials.
7. The structure defined in claim 1 , wherein said radiation dosage detector is the film or TLD detector capable of detecting electromagnetic radiation.
8. An auxiliary method of radiotherapy, which allows to arrange the expander of the human tissue radiation protector defined in claim 1 between the tumor cells and nearby human tissues or organs to separate the tumor from the nearby human tissues or organs; and the marker is used to assist the expander in positioning.
9. An auxiliary method of radiotherapy, which allows to arrange the expander of the human tissue radiation protector defined in claim 2 between the tumor cells and nearby human tissues or organs to separate the tumor from the nearby human tissues or organs; the marker and radiation dosage detector are used to assist the expander in positioning and also measurement the radiation dosage at different positions of the expander.
10. The structure defined in claim 8 , wherein said syringe is located in or out of the human body.
11. The structure defined in claim 9 , wherein said syringe is located in or out of the human body.
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