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US 7,351,253 B2Granted
Intranasal red light probe for treating Alzheimer's disease
AssigneeCodman & Shurtleff, Inc.
InventorsThomas M. DiMauro, Mohamed Attawia, Sean Lilienfeld, Chantal Holy
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Abstract
A method of treating Alzheimer's Disease in which intranasal red light devices are used to shine red light upon the brain structures.
Claims11
A method of treating a patient having an olfactory bulb, comprising:
- a) inserting a red light probe having a red light emitter into an upper portion of a nasal cavity,
- b) orienting the red light emitter towards the cribriform plate, and
- c) activating the emitter to irradiate the olfactory bulb with an effective amount of red light.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.