Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Thermal applicators
Patent
1997-02-03
1999-02-16
Peffley, Michael
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Thermal applicators
606 27, 606 31, 607102, A61F 200
Patent
active
058715240
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus applies radiant energy through the skin to an underlying subcutaneous layer or deeper soft tissue layers that includes loculations of fat with fibrous septae made of collagen tissue. This creates a desired contour effect without substantially modifying melanocytes and other epithelial cells in the epidermis. A membrane conforms a contacting exterior surface of the membrane to a skin layer. One or more thermal electrodes positioned in the membrane. A focussing element focuses thermal energy to the underlying collagen tissue. The focusing element and the electrolytic solution create a reverse thermal gradient from the skin to the collagen tissue. A thermal power source is coupled to the thermal electrodes.
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Peffley Michael
Thermage, Inc.
Yarnell Bryan K.
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