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US 10,327,832 B2Granted
Methods and devices for tissue ablation
AssigneeNovoxel Ltd.
InventorMichael Slatkine
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Abstract
A device for vaporizing a hole in tissue, including a vaporizing element, a heating element, configured to heat the vaporizing element, and a mechanism configured to advance the vaporizing element into a specific depth in the tissue and retract the vaporizing element from the tissue within a period of time long enough for the vaporizing element to vaporize the tissue and short enough to limit diffusion of heat beyond a predetermined collateral damage distance from the hole. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
Claims18
A device for skin treatment comprising:
- a heated vaporizing element comprising:
- a hollow titanium element with a closed tip;
- and
- a heating element within the hollow titanium element;
- and
- a mechanism configured to advance the heated vaporizing element into live skin and retract the heated vaporizing element from the live skin, said heated vaporizing element configured to produce a hole in the live skin,
- wherein the heating element is arranged to be heated to a temperature in a range of 200 to 600 degrees Celsius before said heated vaporizing element is advanced.
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A method of evaporating skin comprising:
- heating a vaporizing element to a temperature in a range of 200 to 600 degrees Celsius;
- advancing the heated vaporizing element into live skin and retracting the heated vaporizing element from the live skin, said heated vaporizing element producing a hole in the live skin, the vaporizing element comprising:
- a hollow titanium element with a closed tip;
- and
- a heating element within the hollow titanium element;
- wherein the advancing the heated vaporizing element is to a depth which is smaller or equal to a papillary dermis depth within the tissue;
- and
- the retracting the heated vaporizing element from the tissue is after a short duration, the short duration being short enough to prevent collateral damage further than 150 microns from the hole vaporized in the live skin.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.