Image guided laser therapy
AssigneeCutera, Inc.
InventorLukas Hunziker
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Abstract
Systems, devices, and methods for treating a skin of a patient with therapeutic laser light via imaging a first skin area of the patient to obtain at least a first image, processing the at least a first image of the first skin area with at least one processor to identify within the first skin area at least one or more target skin areas and a non-target skin area, generating a treatment map of the first skin area based on the identified one or more target skin areas and the non-target skin area, and treating at least a portion of the one or more target skin areas with therapeutic laser light based on the generated treatment map.
Claims10
A method of treating a skin area of a patient with therapeutic laser light, the method comprising:
- a) capturing one or more images of a first skin area to obtain at least a first image;
- b) processing the at least a first image to identify at least one target skin area and at least one non-target skin area in the at least a first image;
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- c) treating at least a portion of the at least one target skin area by
- 1) utilizing a therapeutic laser light source to generate therapeutic laser light pulses;
- 2) utilizing a scanner comprising at least one movable optical element optically coupled to the therapeutic laser light source to receive therapeutic laser light pulses from the therapeutic laser light source and to direct the therapeutic laser light pulses to a desired location on the skin of the patient;
- 3) utilizing a controller to control the operation of the scanner, wherein the controller is adapted to control the scanner to direct therapeutic laser light pulses from the therapeutic laser light source to the at least a portion of the at least one target skin area identified in the processing by:
- A) controlling the movable optical element to direct one or more therapeutic laser light pulses to a first portion of a first target skin area;
- B) moving the movable optical element to direct one or more therapeutic laser light pulses to a second portion of the first target skin area that is different from the first portion;
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- C) repeating step (B) one or more times until a desired fraction of the first target skin area has been treated with therapeutic laser light pulses, wherein the second portion of the first target skin area in each repetition of step (B) is different from each previous second portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.