1. A method of treatment for biological tissues, the method including:
(a) positioning an effective amount of a thermal target material at a treatment site of a patient, the treatment site comprising a location adjacent to biological tissue to be treated, and the thermal target material including carbon molecules produced from a liquid reactant process in which a carbon bearing feed material is contacted with a liquid reactant material; and
(b) directing an effective quantity of microwave energy to the thermal target material, the effective quantity of microwave energy being a quantity at a given wavelength sufficient to heat biological tissue adjacent to the treatment site to a treatment temperature.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the treatment site encompasses diseased tissue to be denatured and the treatment temperature is a minimum temperature at which the diseased tissue is denatured.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the treatment site encompasses damaged tissue and the treatment temperature is a minimum temperature at which repair processes in the damaged tissue are temperature enhanced.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the carbon bearing feed material includes acetylene and the carbon molecules include generally spherical carbon nanostructures.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the thermal target material includes the carbon molecules in a carrier liquid.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein the carbon bearing feed material includes acetylene and the carbon molecules include generally spherical carbon nanostructures.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein heating provided by interaction between the effective quantity of microwave energy and biological tissue located between an emitter for the microwave energy and the treatment site is insufficient to denature the biological tissue located between the emitter and the treatment site.
8. A thermal target material for use in the thermal treatment of biological tissues, the thermal target material including:
(a) carbon molecules produced from a liquid reactant process in which a carbon bearing feed material is contacted with a liquid reactant material; and
(b) a carrier fluid.
9. The material of claim 8 wherein the carrier fluid includes a viscosity enhancing agent.
10. The material of claim 8 wherein the carbon bearing feed material includes acetylene and the carbon molecules include generally spherical carbon nanostructures.
11. The material of claim 8 wherein the carbon bearing feed material includes acetylene.
12. A thermal target material for use in the thermal treatment of biological tissues, the thermal target material including:
(a) carbon molecules which are substantially free of chemically bound hydrogen; and
(b) a carrier fluid.
13. The material of claim 12 wherein the carrier fluid includes a viscosity enhancing agent.
14. The material of claim 12 wherein the carbon molecules include generally spherical carbon nanostructures.
15. A method of treatment for biological tissues, the method including:
(a) positioning an effective amount of a thermal target material at a treatment site of a patient, the treatment site comprising a location adjacent to biological tissue to be treated;
(b) directing an effective quantity of microwave energy from a microwave emitter to the thermal target material, the effective quantity of microwave energy being a quantity at a given wavelength sufficient to heat biological tissue adjacent to the treatment site to a treatment temperature; and
(c) wherein the thermal target material includes carbon molecules which absorb the microwave energy such that heat energy radiated from the thermal target material in response to the microwave energy is sufficient to heat the biological tissue adjacent to the treatment site to the treatment temperature while heat energy released in an interaction between the microwave energy and biological tissue located between the microwave emitter and the treatment site is insufficient to denature the biological tissue located between the microwave emitter and the treatment site.
16. The method of claim 15 wherein the biological tissue adjacent to the treatment site comprises diseased tissue to be denatured and the treatment temperature is a minimum temperature at which the diseased tissue is denatured.
17. The method of claim 15 wherein the biological tissue adjacent to the treatment site comprises damaged tissue and the treatment temperature is a temperature at which repair processes in the damaged tissue are temperature enhanced.
18. The method of claim 15 wherein the carbon molecules are produced from a reaction of acetylene with a reactant material.
19. The method of claim 18 wherein the carbon molecules include spherical carbon nano structures.
20. The method of claim 15 wherein the thermal target material includes the carbon molecules in a carrier liquid.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of distributing power over a communication channel, the method comprising the steps of:
(a) dividing the communication channel into a fixed number of equal bandwidth bins;
(b) estimating total channel interference contributed by noise, DSIN-NEXT and DSIN-FEXT and lumping the estimated total channel interference into one power spectral density (PSD);
(c) determining a sure-EQPSD signaling region and a sure-FDS signaling region for the communication channel;
(d) estimating a true optimal crossover point for switching between EQPSD signaling and FDS signaling;
(e) estimating an initial power distribution of power, PE, on one side of the estimated true optimal crossover point (EQPSD region), and PF, on the other side of the estimated true optimal crossover point (FDS region);
(f) distributing optimally the power on each side of the estimated true optimal crossover point;
(g) determining overall communication channel capacity;
(h) re-estimating the initial power distribution of power on each side of the estimated true optimal crossover point;
(i) repeating steps (g) and (h) for a desired range of powers to determine a maximum communication channel capacity;
(j) re-estimating the true optimal crossover point for switching between EQPSD signaling and FDS signaling;
(k) repeating steps (e)\u2013(j) for a desired range of values of the true optimal crossover point; and
(l) selecting a highest channel capacity bin as the true optimal crossover point.
2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the step (f) of distributing optimally the power on each side of the estimated true optimal crossover point comprises distributing FDS power on one side of the estimated true optimal crossover point and distributing EQPSD signaling power on an opposite side of the estimated true optimal crossover point.
3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the step (f) of distributing optimally the power on each side of the estimated true optimal crossover point comprises waterfilling the EQPSD region as a function of subchannel input power, subchannel power transfer gain, subchannel self-NEXT, subchannel self-FEXT and subchannel echo.
4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the step (f) of distributing optimally the power on each side of the estimated true optimal crossover point comprises waterfilling the FDS region as a function of subchannel input power, subchannel power transfer gain, and subchannel self-FEXT.
5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the step (1) of selecting a highest channel capacity bin as the true optimal crossover point comprises selecting a bin having the highest data rate.
6. The method according to claim 1 wherein the step (c) of determining a sure-EQPSD signaling region and a sure-FDS signaling region for the communication channel comprises finding a single stationary point and using EQPSD signaling for upstream and downstream signal transmission when the single stationary point is a maximum and alternatively using FDS signaling for upstream and downstream signal transmission when the single stationary point is a minimum.