WO2000024468A9 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zur regelung einer gezielten wärmedeponierung in ein material - Google Patents
Verfahren und vorrichtung zur regelung einer gezielten wärmedeponierung in ein materialInfo
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61N—ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY
- A61N7/00—Ultrasound therapy
- A61N7/02—Localised ultrasound hyperthermia
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
- A61B8/00—Diagnosis using ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves
- A61B8/48—Diagnostic techniques
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01K—MEASURING TEMPERATURE; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G01K11/00—Measuring temperature based upon physical or chemical changes not covered by groups G01K3/00, G01K5/00, G01K7/00 or G01K9/00
- G01K11/22—Measuring temperature based upon physical or chemical changes not covered by groups G01K3/00, G01K5/00, G01K7/00 or G01K9/00 using measurement of acoustic effects
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
- A61B17/00—Surgical instruments, devices or methods, e.g. tourniquets
- A61B2017/00017—Electrical control of surgical instruments
- A61B2017/00022—Sensing or detecting at the treatment site
- A61B2017/00084—Temperature
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- the invention relates to a method and to a device for controlling a targeted heat deposition in a material, preferably in biological tissue, with an ultrasonic wave generating unit that couples ultrasonic waves into the material, an ultrasonic wave detecting unit that detects the ultrasonic waves emerging from the material detected and an evaluation unit that generates statement parameters based on the detected ultrasonic waves, which provide information about the thermal and structural changes within the material.
- thermotherapy procedures which are used for the targeted overheating of limited tissue volumes, particularly in the treatment of tumors and metastases.
- thermotherapy methods used today, a division can be made into two groups:
- hyperthermia can be understood to mean the warming of tissue areas located inside the body through the input of energy from outside. She is used in oncology for tumor treatment, e.g. to support radiation or chemotherapy.
- the energy input occurs through alternating electrical fields or by means of high-power ultrasound.
- the therapeutically desired temperature increases are generally 6 ° C above the core body temperature, which can be achieved with typical treatment times between 20 and 30 minutes.
- Localized tissue damage from heat is a widely used procedure in minimally invasive surgery and endosurgery for the treatment of pathological tissue changes, such as tumors and metastases.
- the most common intracavitary or minimally invasive methods are the use of laser light in the infrared range (LITT: laser-induced thermotherapy), high-frequency coagulators and high-energy ultrasound (HIFU: High Intensity Focused Ultrasound).
- LITT laser-induced thermotherapy
- HIFU High Intensity Focused Ultrasound
- the following tissue reactions are essentially carried out in these applications: pure heating, expansion of the tissue, denaturation (coagulation), formation of gas bubbles. Subsequent carbonization is therapeutically undesirable.
- the treatment of liver metastases, breast cancer, tumors of the prostate and tumors in the brain can be cited as prominent examples.
- the general therapeutic goal of this therapy method is the maximum damage to the malignant, malignant, tissue, as far as possible Preservation of the surrounding benign, benign, tissue areas, which, depending on their function, can represent extremely sensitive structures.
- Glaucoma is the main cause of blindness in western countries.
- the end of a laser fiber is placed on the sclera from the outside and the underlying structures that produce the aqueous humor are coagulated (transskieral cyclophotocoagulation). If the laser energy is too high, the irradiated ciliary body area is completely destroyed (disruption). With treatment times of around 2 seconds, a switch-off criterion for the laser based on successful coagulation would remedy the situation.
- DE 195 06 363 A1 describes a method for non-invasive thermometry in organs under medical hyperthermia and coagulation conditions which, in order to obtain data on structural changes in the tissue, intersperses the tissue to be heated with ultrasound waves, the amplitude reflection factor of which is measured as a signal . On the basis of the amplitude reflection factors obtained, the sum of temperature and structure-related changes in the tissue exposed to heat is determined. Also when applied to the general case of thermal material treatment for the targeted internal structural change in materials, for example the transition from crystalline to amorphous or a chemical conversion, no reliable methods are known when and in which spatial areas structural changes occur. The previously known method for determining the temperature by means of thermotherapy or hyperthermia is not suitable for the exact determination of the current spatial extent and the structural change occurring in the interior of a material.
- a method according to the preamble of claim 1 is developed in such a way that the ultrasound waves emerging from the material are detected in a time-resolved or location-resolved manner, the ultrasound waves detected being time-resolved in the evaluation unit and according to the degree of their transit time change relative to the ultrasound wave signals originate from detected ultrasound waves, which have been reflected on the material before the heat deposition, are examined and are used as the basis for a spatial delimitation of structural changes within the material which result from the introduction of heat.
- an energy input required for heat deposition into the material is then regulated.
- the method according to the invention is based on variables with which it is possible to directly measure the structural tissue changes and to spatially record their temporal development behavior.
- the invention is based on the idea of making a direct determination of the structural change in material, which was caused by heat deposition, using spatially resolved changes in the transit time of the backscattered ultrasonic waves. For example, it is possible to detect structural biological tissue irritation without, as previously, the detour via temperature determination, by only using the measurement of the change in the transit time of the back-reflected ultrasound waves.
- the material to be treated is then specifically heated, for example by locally introducing laser light with the aid of an optical fiber.
- other techniques for targeted heat deposition are also possible, such as exposing the material to external electromagnetic alternating fields or ultrasound fields, with heating being used with low-frequency ultrasound and detection with higher-frequency diagnostic ultrasound.
- Another technique is deep freezing with liquid nitrogen.
- the heat deposition can be regulated according to the degree of energy that is entered into the material per unit of time.
- the light output can be set accordingly when using light applications.
- the back-reflected ultrasound waves are detected during the heat input in such a way that they are recorded spectrally over time and at the same time in full.
- the ultrasound wave signals obtained are processed in a time-resolved manner for each emitted ultrasound pulse, with an examination of the back reflexes looking for areas of the ultrasound wave signals in which a maximum change in transit time compared to the scale is observed.
- the profile of the echo signal can be used to derive precise information about the position and extent of structural changes within the material. With this knowledge of the actual state within the material, control variables can be generated to control the heat-depositing unit in order to obtain only the desired structural material changes.
- a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the structural change taking place in the material due to the introduction of heat can therefore be carried out by means of the spatially resolved changes in the transit time of the ultrasonic waves.
- the changes in transit time are made up of the temperature-dependent sound propagation speed c (T) and, with further heating, additionally of the naturally different, thermally induced expansion of the material ⁇ (T).
- the size c (T) is used for pure thermometry, for example with moderate heating and low temperature increases.
- the maximum spatial displacements of backscattered ultrasound signal components are obtained, which are directly related to the structural change of the material and serve to indicate their spatial extent.
- both effects can be separated, on the one hand due to the significantly stronger influence of the macroscopic material expansion, which is reflected in a stronger time gradient of the changes in transit time, and on the other hand by the direction and different propagation of the effect away from the hearth.
- a change in the so-called "integrated backscattering", relative to a starting value before the heat input or relative to a characteristic, structural material change during the heat input, is used to control the formation of gas bubbles in heat-treated biological tissue. The decay of this effect indicates the impending carbonization of the tissue.
- the change in the acoustic damping coefficient can in principle also be used as a parameter for determining the structural change in a material, preferably biological tissue.
- a generic method is alternatively designed such that the ultrasound waves emerging from the material are detected in a time-resolved or location-resolved manner, the detected ultrasound waves per ultrasound pulse being subjected to a dynamically adapted windowing in the evaluation unit such that the section starts of each individual window section in each case have a fixed relationship to the signal curve of the detected ultrasonic waves.
- a direct or indirect spectrum comparison is carried out with at least one window section of a temporally older ultrasound wave pulse, which has the same section start as the current window section in relation to the temporal signal curve.
- the reflected signal for determining the local spectra is not provided with a temporally rigid window, but with a dynamic window that moves with it. Simultaneously in the sense that the reflected signal is divided into individual sections of constant size, the section beginnings of each window always having a fixed relationship with respect to the entire back-reflected signal course.
- This continuous windowing can be determined, for example, by known correlation methods.
- a determination of the change in the damping coefficient can thus be used for the spatially resolved determination of the structural change in the material.
- the spectral shift is used to determine the damping coefficient between two respective window sections. Due to an existing frequency dependence of the damping coefficient when it passes through a damping layer, the spectral components of an ultrasonic signal are attenuated to different extents. This results in a shift of the entire spectrum of the signal in the frequency domain.
- This Shift of the spectrum can be determined by different known methods, the determination of the shift can be carried out in the time domain as well as in the frequency domain.
- the reflected ultrasound signal is divided into individual window sections, that is to say windowed over time, and the relative shift of the spectra of these windows to one another is considered.
- the average damping coefficient for the area between the respective windows can be estimated from the shift of the spectra to one another.
- a device for controlling a targeted heat deposition in a material preferably for the gentle treatment of biological material, in particular biological tissue, with an ultrasound wave-generating unit that couples ultrasound waves into the material, an ultrasound-wave-detecting unit that consists of the material emerging ultrasound waves, and an evaluation unit that generates information parameters based on the detected ultrasound waves that provide information about the thermal and structural changes within the material, such that the ultrasound waves generating and detecting unit are arranged in a common plane and together relative can be adjusted to the material to be treated such that a unit which effects the heat deposition is arranged largely centrally to the units generating and detecting the ultrasonic waves et and is aimed at the material.
- Fig. 3 device variant 2 for performing the method
- Fig. 4 device variant 3 for performing the method.
- FIG. 1 shows a diagram along the abscissa of which the depth of penetration of an ultrasound wave pulse into a material, in the example of FIGS. 1 a, b into biological tissue. Values for the spatially resolved transit time shifts for an ultrasound wave pulse are plotted along the ordinate in ⁇ sec.
- the time delay shift that can be represented per ultrasound wave pulse that is coupled into a biological tissue relative to an output profile of an ultrasound pulse that was obtained under normal temperature conditions, ie without artificial heat input, is shown in FIG. 1 a.
- the change in transit time of an ultrasound pulse due to a structural transformation within a tissue area caused by the action of heat can be cross-correlated with the currently obtained ultrasound wave signals receive saved values before the start of treatment.
- the curve obtained in this way is then smoothed by a polynomial, preferably of a low order, and evaluated accordingly.
- FIG. 1a shows an image of the heat-treated tissue area in question
- the light-colored tissue area corresponds exactly to the area in which structural tissue irritation can be observed through the introduction of heat.
- This area corresponds exactly to the area in which the function curve in FIG. 1a has the largest gradient.
- the heat input in FIG. 1b takes place by light application by means of an optical fiber which projects into the tissue area from below in the center of the image in FIG. 1b.
- the spatially resolved propagation velocities have to be calculated, which in turn are the basis for the temperature determination, which can be used in particular for the control and documentation of the maintenance of healthy tissue.
- Figure 2 shows an embodiment for performing the method according to the invention.
- An ultrasound transducer 1 for ultrasound generation and at the same time for detection is located on a housing part G which has a spherical contour on its underside.
- a bore 2 is provided in the center of the housing G and the ultrasound transducer 1, through which an optical fiber 3 is guided, for targeted light application to a tissue volume 4.
- Puncture transducers In order to ensure a clear alignment of the ultrasound bundle with the treatment volume 4 of interest, conventional ones can be used Puncture transducers. Instead of the intended guidance of puncture needles, an optical fiber 3 is suitable in the illustrated case, which can also be replaced by an HF applicator.
- Single element transducer as shown in Figure 2, which can also be shaped focusing, with a central bore 2 for receiving the optical fiber 3 or a radio frequency needle.
- the coaxial arrangement ensures that the sound bundle is clearly aligned with the tissue region 4 to be treated.
- FIG. 3 shows an exemplary embodiment with an ultrasound transducer linear array 5 with a central bore 2 for receiving heat applicators 3.
- the array can be used to achieve electronic depth focusing which supports the positioning of the applicator, but above all the measurement and Presentation of the degree and extent of the therapeutically achieved tissue change.
- the array can be mounted rotatably about the applicator axis 6 within a housing 7, so that a 3-dimensional guidance of the sound bundle is possible, on the basis of which the 3-dimensional tissue changes are recorded and displayed. In this way, an optimal compensation of 3-dimensional movement influences is achieved.
- optical fiber or HF applicators can be provided with markers (eg made of metal) that are particularly easy to recognize for ultrasound.
- All versions can be sterilized or can be provided with sterile covers
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