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Non invasive remedy treatment of muscular skeleton system of in vivo and/or the device which does non invasive quantitative evaluation, and does the non invasive quantitative evaluation of state of muscular skeleton system of in vivo the device
Non invasive remedy treatment of muscular skeleton system of in vivo and/or the device which does non invasive quantitative evaluation, and does the non invasive quantitative evaluation of state of muscular skeleton system of in vivo the device
Non-invasive therapeutic treatment and/or quantitative evaluation of musculoskeletal tissue are performed in vivo by subjecting musculoskeletal tissue (11) to an ultrasonic acoustic signal pulse excitation, involving a composite sine wave signal consisting of plural discrete frequencies that are spaced in the ultrasonic region to approximately 2 MHZ, and repeated substantially in the range of 1 Hz to 1000 Hz. In a quantitative evaluation, the signal is supplied to one of two transducers (12, 13) on opposite sides of the tissue, and the signal received by the other transducer is processed (14): (a) to obtain an averaged per-pulse signal, and (b) to produce a Fourier transform of the averaged per-pulse tissue transmittal signal. In a separate operation, the same transducers are subjected to the same excitation, reception and processing, using a medium of known acoustic properties and path length to produce a reference Fourier transform. In a therapeutic treatment, the transducer (12) excited by the composite sine wave signal, is applied for a time period and magnitude.
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