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Editor: Mike Coyle Associate Editors: Walter Bowart Alex Constantine Martin Cannon Assistant Editor: Rick Lawler Research: Darrell Bross Editor's Note: The schematic mentioned in this article is available in GIF format at our FTP site as: [mn131.gif]. ================================================================ RESONANCE Newsletter of the Bioelectromagnetics Special Interest Group (SIG) Judy Wall, Editor, 684 C.R. 535, Sumterville, FL 33585 USA Sample of Newsletter $4.00, Subscription (4 per year) $15.00. Number 28, May 1995 Pages 11 to 15. ---------------------------------------------------------------- REVIEW OF PATENT # 4,889,526 "NON-INVASIVE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODULATING BRAIN SIGNALS THROUGH AN EXTERNAL MAGNETIC ELECTRIC FIELD TO REDUCE PAIN" by Judy Wall This patent was granted December 26, 1989 to Elizabeth A. Rauscher and William L. Van Bise, both of San Leandro California; assignee MegTech Laboratories, Inc., Reno, Nevada. Michael Hutchinson's Megabrain Report, Vol. 1, #4, published a few years ago, gives this background information on the inventors: "Elizabeth Rauscher and Bill Van Bise are two of the leading investigators of the effects of electromagnetism on biological systems. They are currently engaged in clinical tests of a device they have developed that uses pulsed electromagnetic signals at specific frequency combinations for the treatment of cardiac problems and pain. "Elizabeth Rauscher earned her B.A. in physics and chemistry, a Masters in nuclear engineering and a Ph.D. in nuclear science from Berkeley. She spent 19 years with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, three of them in a theoretical physics group at Lawrence Livermore Labs. She has served as a consultant with SRI International, NASA, and the Navy. For many years she has had a special interest in quantum electronics, the biological effects of electromagnetics, and natural sources of low-frequency, long wavelength magnetic field emissions from the earth. She has published influential papers in nuclear physics, astrophysics, and fusion research. She is presently engaged full time with the medical research project that involves the use of electromagnetic frequencies. "Bill Van Bise is an electrical engineer who served as consultant to broadcast companies throughout the U.S. He was instructor at the University of Oregon Health Sciences University Medical School. During the 1970s he was a consultant to the Oregon State Health division Radiation Section. He teamed up with Elizabeth Rauscher in 1984 when they began their current research and development in the area of electromagnetism and biological systems." The ABSTRACT for the invention reads: "The invention incorporates the discovery of new principles which utilize magnetic and electric fields generated by time varying square wave currents of precise repetition, with shape and magnitude to move through coils and cutaneously applied conductive electrodes in order to stimulate the nervous system and reduce pain in humans. Timer means, adjustment means, and means to deliver current to the coils and conductive electrodes are described, as well as a theoretical model of the process. The invention incorporates the concept of two cyclic expanding and collapsing magnetic fields which generate precise wave conjunction with each other to create a beat frequency which in turn causes the ion flow in the nervous system of the human body to be efficiently moved along the nerve path where the locus of the pain exists to thereby reduce the pain. The wave forms are created either in one or more coils, one or more pairs of electrodes, or a combination of the two." The patent is long, 30 pages, 7 in the introduction with diagrams, the rest divided into about equal parts of discussion, mathematical equations, and practical application. The discussion presents the most complete summary in single article of the interaction of biological materials and electromagnetic fields that I have seen. These are the highlights of the presentation: "The inventors have discovered that the beginning of the normal cardiac cycle and response to pain cycle originates in the mid-brain and the hypothalamus with excitation of the Purkinje cells and is oscillatorily propagated to the heart or source of pain, respectively." In the first embodiment of the invention, the authors employ an external magnetic field generating device that produces an expanding and collapsing magnetic field in the form of a square wave, frequency from 7.15 to 7.78 Hertz. This magnetic square wave triggers the PQRSTU wave form characteristic of an electrocardiogram. It is not necessary to mimic the wave. In the second embodiment, two frequencies of magnetic field impulses are generated, differing by a factor of ten, specifically 7.6 and 76 Hertz. The frequencies are mixed to counteract pain. "This invention incorporates the discovery of new principles involving both linear and non-linear properties of biologic material and inorganic semiconduction systems. By generating certain energies at a distance from, as well as in the proximity of, these materials or systems and at the same time optimally detecting their changes and emissions, unique new characteristics can be elicited and observed. Biologic as well as inorganic systems, when excited by external energies of specific, mixed, or varying in a narrow range of frequencies, polarizations, wave forms and intensities, will have their own characteristics changed and in turn will change the characteristic of the energies impinging upon the system. Thus a characteristic transmitted energy impinging upon or travelling through a given self-resonant system will stimulate the system to respond with a transmission of its own which is different from its transmission characteristic when undisturbed by the impinging energy. These two separate characteristic energies will interact synergistically producing not only greater effects at the disturbed local material sites, but also will produce non-local effects at other sites. The interaction of emitted energies from artificial sources and biological systems, if both are characteristically self resonant at some compatible fundamental or harmonic frequency, results in the formation of an informational channel between the source and the system. The channel frequency is able to modulate the interacting systems with diode-like forward-reverse voltage fluctuation. The channel is therefore a system frequency modulator." The patent goes on to discuss the informational channel bandwidths, which are narrow with high "Q"s. There are at least three informational channels for humans. The cardiovascular system has a band width of approximately 30.4 Hertz with a frequency swing of plus of minus 15.2 Hertz, and the Bessel null at about 7.6 Hertz. The nervous system has an informational band width of 304 Hertz with frequency swing plus or minus 152 Hertz, first Bessel component at 23 Hertz "which represents a mix of 7.6 and 76 Hertz generated signals." The brain informational channel band width is 3040 Hertz with frequency swing plus or minus 1520 Hertz, "and a more complex mix of frequencies peaking between 70 and 123 Hertz." The informational channel bandwidths of the above three systems increases by a factor of ten. "It is a well known engineering fact that in order for signals of given frequencies to be faithfully detected and reproduced that the receiving channel must have a band width at least ten times the frequency of the highest emitted frequency which must be processed...Narrow band FM is therefore the logical choice which Nature evidently selected." "...the present invention relates to non invasive devices which emit magnetic pulses that can penetrate through and interact with biological materials and potentially all systems of the body in what is known as the ELF/VLF frequency range. These devices operate at low intensities, and except for the noted exceptions, without direct contact with the material affected. Through this effect, the present invention can enhance the ability of biologic systems toward a state of improved function in many areas of organic dysfunction." Later in the patent, it is stated, "The Soliton model of biological signalling becomes useful in describing the various conditions of bioelectromagnetic processing...Disruption or enhancement occurs because external signals transduced by the nonlinearities of the tissue form into Soliton-like waves. The waves, then, can modify and recohere processes which are too dispersive and hence reinforce normal neuronal or other signal paths. On the other hand, these waves, at other frequencies, wave forms, and intensities can increase dispersion and hence introduce disruption and biological damage in the system." There are 13 diagrams in this patent. The schematics included were sort of "generic" in that they did not have specific numerical values assigned to the components. I asked Chuck Allen of Tampa Bay Mensa if he could remedy this situation which he did very nicely in the two included diagrams. Note, the numbers in parentheses refer to the numbers on the original diagrams. By the way, Chuck tells me that there is no transmitter in this schematic; the desired effect is achieved by close proximity magnetic induction between the subject and apparatus.