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US 10,821,295 B1Granted
Aesthetic method of biological structure treatment by magnetic field
AssigneeBTL Medical Technologies S.R.O.
InventorsTomás Schwarz, Ondra Prouza
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Abstract
Combined methods for treating a patient using time-varying magnetic field are described. The treatment methods combine various approaches for aesthetic treatment. The methods are focused on enhancing a visual appearance of the patient.
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A method of patient treatment comprising:
- charging an energy storage device and providing energy from the energy storage device to a magnetic field generating device to generate a time-varying magnetic field;
- applying the time-varying magnetic field having a repetition rate in a range of 1 Hz to 300 Hz and a magnetic flux density in a range of 0.1 T and 7 T to muscle fibers, neuromuscular plates, or peripheral nerves innervating muscle fibers within a body region of a patient such that a muscle is caused to contract;
- generating radiofrequency waves by an HF generator and providing the radiofrequency waves in a range of 500 kHz to 3 GHz to a radiofrequency electrode;
- and
- applying the radiofrequency waves to the patient;
- wherein the magnetic field generating device and the radiofrequency electrode are disposed in an applicator.
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A method of patient treatment comprising:
- providing energy from an energy storage device to a magnetic field generating device to generate a time-varying magnetic field with a magnetic flux density in a range of 0.1 T to 7 T, a repetition rate in a range of 1 Hz to 300 Hz, with an impulse duration in a range of 3 μs to 1 ms, and a maximal value of a magnetic flux density derivative in a range of 0.3 kT/s to 800 kT/s;
- applying the time-varying magnetic field to muscle fibers, neuromuscular plates, or peripheral nerves innervating muscle fibers within a body region of a patient such that a muscle of the patient is caused to contract;
- generating radiofrequency waves with a frequency in a range of 500 kHz to 3 GHz;
- and
- applying the radiofrequency waves to the patient to cause heating of a biological structure of the patient.
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A method of patient treatment comprising:
- providing energy from an energy storage device to a magnetic field generating device;
- generating, by the magnetic field generating device, a time-varying magnetic field having a plurality of magnetic pulses with a magnetic flux density in a range of 0.1 Tesla to 7 Tesla, a maximal value of a magnetic flux density derivative in a range of 300 T/s to 800 kT/s, and a repetition rate in a range of 1 Hz to 300 Hz;
- applying the plurality of magnetic pulses of the time-varying magnetic field to muscle fibers, neuromuscular plates, or peripheral nerves innervating muscle fibers within a body region of a patient such that a muscle is caused to contract;
- generating radiofrequency waves by an HF generator and providing the radiofrequency waves in a range of 500 kHz to 3 GHz to a radiofrequency electrode;
- and
- applying the radiofrequency waves to the patient,
- heating a target biological structure of the patient by the radiofrequency waves.
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A method of patient treatment using an HF generator, a radiofrequency electrode, an energy storage device and a first magnetic field generating device, comprising:
- providing energy from the energy storage device to the first magnetic field generating device to generate a first time-varying magnetic field, wherein the first magnetic field generating device has an inductance in a range 1 nH to 50 mH;
- applying the first time-varying magnetic field having a repetition rate in a range of 1 Hz to 300 Hz and a magnetic flux density in a range 0.1 T to 7 T to muscle fibers, neuromuscular plates, or peripheral nerves innervating muscle fibers within a body region of a patient such that a muscle is caused to contract;
- generating radiofrequency waves with a frequency in a range of 500 kHz to 3 GHz;
- applying the radiofrequency waves to the patient;
- and
- heating the patient by the radiofrequency waves.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.