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US 2017/0304645 A1Published application
Applicator
AssigneeCandela Corporation
InventorsKevin Schomacker, Jeffrey Bernstein, Vadim Grinis, Stephen Cronin, Herbert Otterson
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Abstract
Disclosed is an applicator or handpiece configured to apply treatment energy to a segment of skin located in a tissue or skin treatment plane. The treatment energy could be RF energy, applied by a pair of bipolar RF electrodes or optical energy. The applicator includes an optical system configured to form a rectangular spot and homogenize the optical energy distribution.
Claims20
An applicator with a skin cooling arrangement, comprising:
- a housing and a support structure extending from distal end of the housing, the support structure includes at least one cooling fluid conducting channel;
- a transparent window mounted on the support structure the window includes at least one cooling fluid conducting channel being in fluid communication with the at least one fluid conducting channel in the support structure;
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- wherein the transparent window cools treated tissue area being in contact with the transparent window.
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