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Potential Cure? Scientific Advances
« on: Jul 16th, 2005, 4:34pm »
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I found the following information while researching potential cures during a bad series of attacks last night.
It's an extremely techincal article but well worth reading.  Science may yet save us after all.
 
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Advances in Treatment of Decision Disorders, Stress, Anxiety, Confusion, Headache, Depression
 
Auger Electron Surgery (AES)
 
Potential Applications for AES
Auger Electron Surgery has proven to provide relief for patients suffering from a a variety of condtions, applications may only be limited by availability of technology.  
 
Clinical trials are currently being being conducted for headache conditions such as Migrane and rare disorders such as Cluster Headache where reduction of hypothalamic mass may provide effective relief.  It is possible to address individual small features with AES while many other procedures rely on previous microsurgical techniques and procedures to address such heterogeneous tissue.  
 
In contrast to AES, these less finely focused techniques provide only average concentrations of electron energy to tissue features and are therefore limited to applications where features have singificantly larger mass and volume.  
 
Typical Patient Results Bases on Preliminary Testing
Preliminary results are encouraging due to near 100% relief in trial patients - additional clinical testing and followup is currently being conducted to establish long-term success rates
 
 
The Auger Process
The basic Auger process starts with removal of outer tissues with atomic electrons to form a vacancy. Several processes are capable of producing this vacancy, but bombardment with an electron beam is the most common. The inner vacancy is then bombarded by a second atomic electron while simultaneously releasing the third  electron - the Auger electron which escapes carrying excess energy in a radiationless process.  The process of an excited ion decaying into a doubly charged ion by ejection of an electron is called the Auger process.  During this process an X-ray photon removes enalrged tissues.  In cases of minimal enlargement, success is most prominent when a K-level electron is ejected by the primary beam, an L-level electron drops into the vacancy, and another L-level electron is ejected to minimize overall deep tissue vacancy.
 
Auger electron energy is ~423 eV (EAuger = EL2 - EM4 - EM3) and the X-ray photon energy is ~457.8 eV (Ehv = EL2 - EM4).
 
Electron Beam Effects
When the electron beam strikes patient tissue, it produces a plethora of different interactions. Elastic scattering occurs when a high energy electron (1 to 30 keV) strikes tissues and recoils with essentially all of its energy.  The Kinematic Factor Equation applies to this situation and indicates an energy loss of 1 eV for a 25 keV for electrons striking tissues and scattering back at 180 degrees.  The electron beam loses energy as it passes through tissue, thereby sharpening the energy distributed by backscattered electrons. Inelastic scattering then occurs as the primary electrons gives up larger amounts of energy and proudce the augering effect with microscopic precision.  
  • Plasmon excitation, occurs with high probablility as the free electron absorbs energy. Typical plasmon excitations require transfer of around 15 eV to the tissue.    

  • Conduction band excitation ejects loosely bound tissues from the vacancy.  The majority leave with 0 to 50 eV kinetic energies.
 
  • Bremsstrahlung from the German for "braking radiation" occurs when a primary electron undergoes deceleration in the target region.  The bremsstralung consists of X-ray photons with energies spread between zero and the primary beam energy.
 
  • Excitation of lattice oscillations (photons) transfer a substantial portion of beam energy to the target as heat to minimize bleeding and subsequent tissue damage.  

  • Inner vacancy  ionization leaves the patient in a highly energetic state as patients absorb a large amount of the primary electron energy.  Decay of this excited state produces more characteristicly normal patient behavior.  Constant observation of patients during this stage is warranted.    

 

 
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Modified to add - Actually stole a lot of the tech. stuff from from literature for a device used to conduct analysis of metal failures.  
 
P.S. Please don't shoot me - I couldn't help myself.  I gotta amuse myself every now and then so as to stay sane.  
 
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« Reply #1 on: Jul 16th, 2005, 6:06pm »
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I'm guessin' you're a technical writer with way too much time on your hands, or you ate one for breakfast...
 
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« Reply #2 on: Jul 16th, 2005, 6:27pm »
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Tom,
if you ever need a new career, there are lots of snake oil sites that could use some polishing up of what they call a scientific explanation. Grin
 
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« Reply #3 on: Jul 16th, 2005, 6:49pm »
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Now I know who I'm looking up when I need documentation written. You have way too much time on yer hands. smokin
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« Reply #4 on: Jul 16th, 2005, 6:58pm »
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But seriously, folks, we in Australia seem to have a bit of an advantage in that all our larger hospitals (and some smaller ones) have a "Cluster Room".  At reception they simply confirm our name with the CH registry and it's straight in thank you please.
 
The lighting and decor are soft, but not dark, and the O2 bottles are lined up waiting.  There's a choice of excercise machines for pacing or cycling and even a rowing machine that I haven't tried yet.  All have a PC next to them logged directly into CH.com.
 
Medical staff are always in attendance but they never 'hover', they just leave you to get on with it unless you ask for an ice pack or the like.
 
The doctor comes through every twenty minutes or so to see if you want a shot of anything stronger, but for me it's just the re-assurance that he's there. It's good, too, that he's always happy to discuss alternative therapies and all the new research that's going on.
 
In fact, there's only one thing wrong with the whole caboodle.
 
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Replace "auger" with "tunnel", and it is very similar to what is being done here at nearby U of MI.   Not far off.
 
 
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the electric field of the pulse changes the band structure of the material allowing carriers (electrons and holes) to "tunnel" into the conduction band. For weaker fields, multiphoton ionization dominates. Multiphoton ionization occurs when electrons absorb enough photons from the laser pulse to raise the electrons to the conduction band.
 
Cuts can be made with little collateral damage.  
...incisions made... often do not bleed because the tissue is locally coagulated or cauterized.
 
Once free carriers (tunneling ionization) have been generated (or already exist in the material in equilibrium before the pulse), the avalanche process takes over. The free carriers absorb energy from the pulse and impact other bound carriers freeing them for further "avalanching." Avalanche ionization always dominates...
 
Only a small amount of the incident energy is absorbed to create the plasma. The plasma is a very hot electron-ion gas at a high pressure. It cools either by expanding, heating the surrounding material, or by emitting light. Most of the absorbed energy goes into expansion. The initial high pressure in the plasma causes a shock wave to form and propagate...

 
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« Reply #6 on: Jul 16th, 2005, 11:51pm »
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I had a hypothalamus transplant earlier this year. The Doc also replaced my trigeminal nerve system and right eye...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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AES is clearly a much less invasive procedure.
 
However yours is is one of the best modular Cranial Nerve-stem Replacement (CNR) procedures I have seen.  Remember to stay alert for migration of particle wear debris that can result in macrophages and/or fibroblasts.  
 
The addition of a Total Shoulder and arm (TSA)  replacement is a nice touch.  I assume these are the new Titanium and Cobalt Chrome alloys.  
 
Were going to need the name of your surgeon.     laugh
 
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« Reply #8 on: Jul 17th, 2005, 1:19am »
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Man oh man Brian... you had me until that last line.  I was thinking of moving to that side of the pond!
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Damn, I should have read your disclaimer!  As soon as I read the artidle I got a grapefruit spoon and scooped out half of my hypothalamus!
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« Reply #10 on: Jul 17th, 2005, 2:24am »
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Tom,
boy, you're good! laugh
 
You do need hobbies... Grin
How about becoming a novelist...? Wink
 
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LMAO!    
 
My FIRST clue was the spelling!  LOL
 
lemme know if you need a good editor.
 
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My first clue was the word Auger. I know what an auger is and there is no-way-hell anybody is going to auger anything of mine.
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They already HAVE Bob - you just aint realized it yet!  
 
 
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on Jul 17th, 2005, 9:32am, Woobie wrote:
They already HAVE Bob - you just aint realized it yet!  
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Dang! A glass of wine or some flowers first would have been nice.
Or a donut.
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on Jul 17th, 2005, 9:27am, Woobie wrote:
LMAO!    
 
My FIRST clue was the spelling!  LOL
 
lemme know if you need a good editor.
 
LMAO! laugh

 
Note to self:  Learn to use Spllcheck.  
 
Darn, forget agin!
 
Rats! - OK I need and editor.
 
 
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on Jul 17th, 2005, 2:24am, sandie99 wrote:
Tom,
boy, you're good! laugh
 
You do need hobbies... Grin
How about becoming a novelist...? Wink
 
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My hobby is woodworking and it's often unsafe to use the machinery when lacking sufficient sleep.  
 
I had a english teacher in HS that used to write - Become A Writer on all my papers.  -  Who knows?    
 
 
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on Jul 17th, 2005, 9:30am, BobG wrote:
My first clue was the word Auger. I know what an auger is and there is no-way-hell anybody is going to auger anything of mine.
 Grin

 
Come on now - Admit it - we've probably all thought of using an auger from time to time.  
 
Or am I the only one?  oops
 
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« Reply #18 on: Jul 17th, 2005, 3:44pm »
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I'm with Bob!  The second I read the word auger, my eyebrows went up!
 
Nice writing!  hehe
 
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