Therapy radiation apparatus for veterinary medicine

DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is a primary object of this invention to provide a device for irradiating the body of live animals by means of solid state devices, which will produce radiation in the infrared region of the spectrum.
The radiation may be a collimated single frequency radiation, or relatively broad band uncollimated radiation.
The only explanation of how this radiation can work is that if the selected frequency of the radiation matches the natural nuclear resonance in the cells of the tissue, or bone, then the energy will be absorbed in the tissue and will promote faster growth and healthier tissues.
These and other objects are realized and the limitations of the prior art are overcome in this invention by providing an apparatus which will provide selected voltages for supplying the radiation sources and for precisely modulating the current at a high frequency selected for the particular situation in the tissues of the body.
Different periods or frequencies of modulation are used to stimulate specific cell functions of body tissue.
The power for irradiating the tissues is delivered to a blanket or rod of selected design in order to accommodate placing a plurality of diodes in contact with the outer surface of the animal or at a selected distance away from the outside surface and to apply a voltage which will provide a selected total energy of radiation dependent on the kind of therapy that is required.
With an array of infrared diodes, they are inserted into openings in a flexible sheet of neoprene and held in there by elastic forces.
This sheet is backed up by a rubber like foam.
This provides a certain amount of contact pressure between the sheet and the body surface, so that the sheet will fit itself to the contour of the surface.
The entire blanket is then covered in neoprene for the purpose of handling, etc.
The blanket is attached to the body surface by means of adhesive strips or bandages.
Means are provided for varying the frequency of modulation of radiation and also for timing the irradiation into longer on and off periods