METHOD FOR EXPOSING HUMAN BODY PATHOLOGIES TO RADIATION AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING SAME (VERSIONS) Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61N5/10 H01J35/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions refers to medical equipment. When implementing the method, the pathology is exposed to ionising and thermal radiation simultaneously or sequentially through an output window of a radiation source, which is placed close to or on the surface of the pathology. A radiation flux is limited to a diameter of no more than the maximum size of the pathology; a radiation energy is specified depending on the pathology thickness as shown by the relation E~Kf(d), wherein d is the pathology thickness, K is a coefficient including the radiation penetration within the human body radiation area depending on the radiation energy. The pathology is exposed to the radiation for the pre-set period of time with the source thereafter cooled down, while a cooling intensity varies depending on a temperature of the output window of the radiation source. The versions of the device design represent an enclosed probe in the form of at least two coaxial gapped thin-walled tubes having distal and proximal ends. The probe accommodates the radiation source with a cathode or an anode consisting of a base and a target, an anode cooling system and a power supply unit. The anode is placed on the distal end of the probe. According to the first version of the device, the tube gap comprises the cooling system with a heat carrier, while the cavity formed by an internal tube accommodates the cathode enclosed in an electrical insulation layer. According to the other version of the device, the tube gap accommodates the cathode in the electrical insulation layer, while the cavity formed by the internal tube comprises the cooling system.

EFFECT: group of inventions enables increasing clinical effectiveness considerably in malignant and non-malignant tumours and other diseases that are sensitive to the ionising and heat radiation by the combined and simultaneous exposure to different fluxes, as well as a power up of an X-ray source.

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