System for defining energy field characteristics to illuminate nano-particles used to treat invasive agents

Abstract

The Invasive Agent Treatment System incorporates the pairing of energy fields with nano-particles to cause a thermal effect in the nano-particles, which thermal effect is transmitted into the biological cells of the invasive agent. The energy fields are derived from at least one or a combination of the following: an electric field, a magnetic field, an electromagnetic field (EM), an acoustic field, and an optical field. The Invasive Agent Treatment System provides the necessary coordination among the characteristics of the nano-particles, concentration of nano-particles, duration of treatment, and applied fields to enable the generation of precisely crafted fields and their application in a mode and manner to be effective with a high degree of accuracy.

What is claimed as new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent of the United States is: 
     
         1 . An invasive agent treatment system for use in dynamically defining characteristics of energy fields which are used in activating target particles, which are inserted into a living organism in a manner to associate with invasive agents, to destroy invasive agents in the living organism, comprising:
 target particle databases for maintaining a listing of characteristics of at least one type of target particle; and   an energy field controller, responsive to a user selecting at least one type of said target particles and identifying a portion of a target living organism which contains an invasive agent and at least one type of said target particles, for automatically selecting energy field characteristics from the characteristics of energy fields including, but not limited to, at least one of: field type, frequency, field strength, duration, field modulation, repetition frequency, polarization, beam size, and focal point, necessary to energize the selected type of target particles in a predetermined manner in the portion of the target living organism to destroy the invasive agent.   
     
     
         2 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 1  wherein said energy field controller is responsive to said selected type of target particle to differentially heat said portion of said target living organism by selecting a frequency of said energy field which energizes the selected type of target particles greater than the surrounding living tissue. 
     
     
         3 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 2  wherein said energy field controller is responsive to said selected type of target particle to linearly decrease the field strength of an E-Field as the frequency of the E-Field increases to realize the same power absorbed at the target particle. 
     
     
         4 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 3  wherein said energy field controller is responsive to said selected type of target particle for selecting an E-Field strength where the power absorbed at the target particle is a function of the E-Field strength squared. 
     
     
         5 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 2  wherein said energy field controller is responsive to said selected type of target particle which has a relative permittivity which is a complex value, having both real and imaginary values, where the imaginary portion of the permittivity changes with frequency and determines the loss a given material has in an E-Field, for dynamically adjusting the E-Field strength as a function of frequency. 
     
     
         6 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 2  wherein said energy field controller is responsive to said selected type of target particle having a permittivity and polarity which are temperature dependent, for dynamically changing the E-Field strength during the process of heating of the target particles. 
     
     
         7 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 2  wherein said energy field controller is responsive to said selected type of target particle for selecting an energy field strength as a function of target particle radius cubed for E-Fields and target particle radius to the fifth power for H-Fields. 
     
     
         8 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 1  wherein said energy field controller is responsive to said selected type of target particle which is made of material types responsive to both magnetic and electric fields for illuminating the nano-particle with a magnetic field and an electric field. 
     
     
         9 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 1  wherein said energy field controller is responsive to said selected type of target particle to linearly decrease the field strength of an E-Field as the frequency of the E-Field increases to realize the same power absorbed at the target particle. 
     
     
         10 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 9  wherein said energy field controller is responsive to said selected type of target particle for selecting an E-Field strength where the power absorbed at the target particle is a function of the E-Field strength squared. 
     
     
         11 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 9  wherein said energy field controller is responsive to said selected type of target particle which has a relative permittivity which is a complex value, having both real and imaginary values, where the imaginary portion of the permittivity changes with frequency and determines the loss a given material has in an E-Field, for dynamically adjusting the E-Field strength as function of frequency. 
     
     
         12 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 9  wherein said energy field controller is responsive to said selected type of target particle having a permittivity and polarity which are temperature dependent, for dynamically changing the E-Field strength during the process of heating of the target particles. 
     
     
         13 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 9  wherein said energy field controller is responsive to said selected type of target particle for selecting an energy field strength as a function of target particle radius cubed for E-Fields and target particle radius to the fifth power for H-Fields. 
     
     
         14 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a target particle location database for storing data indicative of the presence and locus of target particles which are located in a living organism.   
     
     
         15 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 destruction databases for storing data relevant to the destruction of invasive agents, comprising at least one of:
 a target particle location database for storing data indicative of the presence and locus of target particles which are located in a living organism, 
 a patient data database for maintaining living organism-specific data which provides data regarding at least one of: age, sex, weight, prior surgeries, or other conditions relevant to the destruction of invasive agents, 
 an empirical and analytical data database for maintaining information, which has been collected via at least one of: modeling, testing, theoretical computations, and past experiences, relating to destruction of invasive agents in a living organism, 
 a reflection characteristics database for maintaining data which represents the percentage of an incident signal which is reflected at the interface between two materials, 
 a penetration depth database for maintaining data which represents the attenuation of an incident signal as it passes through a selected material, and 
 a living organism characterization database for storing data which defines a three-dimensional physical composition of at least one characteristic of a living organism selected from the set of characteristics comprising: material, shape, size, density, and surface treatment. 
   
     
     
         16 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 15  wherein said energy field controller comprises:
 a target energy field calculator, responsive to said data stored in said destruction databases, for determining characteristics of an energy field incident on said target particles required to activate said target particles located in the target living organism to respond in a pre-determined detectable manner to destroy invasive agents in the living organism. 
 
     
     
         17 . The invasive agent destruction system of  claim 16  wherein said energy field controller comprises:
 a correlation process for correlating said determined characteristics of an energy field with said empirical and analytical data to generate refined determined characteristics.