Treatment systems for removing heat from subcutaneous lipid-rich cells
AssigneeThe General Hospital Corporation
InventorsRichard Rox Anderson, Dieter Manstein
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Abstract
The present invention relates to methods for use in the selective disruption of lipid-rich cells by controlled cooling. The present invention further relates to a device for use in carrying out the methods for selective disruption of lipid-rich cells by controlled cooling.
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A treatment system for removing heat from subcutaneous lipid-rich cells of a region of a subject, comprising:
- a cooling device including:
- a chamber configured to receive target tissue of the region,
- at least one treatment interface, and
- at least one thermoelectric cooling element operatively coupled to the at least one treatment interface and configured to reduce a temperature of the region such that lipid-rich cells in the target tissue of the region are disrupted while non-lipid-rich cells in the subject's epidermis and/or dermis are generally not injured;
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- a suction unit configured to be coupled to the cooling device and to thereafter be activated to draw air from the chamber such that the target tissue is pulled into the chamber and into contact with the at least one treatment interface.
A treatment system for removing heat from subcutaneous lipid-rich cells of a region of a subject, comprising:
- a cooling device including a chamber, at least one treatment interface, and at least one cooling element configured to reduce a temperature of the region such that lipid-rich cells in the region are disrupted while non-lipid-rich cells in the subject's epidermis and/or dermis are generally not injured;
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- a suction unit coupled to the cooling device and configured to draw air from the chamber such that the target tissue is pulled up into contact with the at least one treatment interface.
A treatment system for removing heat from subcutaneous lipid-rich cells of a region of a subject, comprising:
- a cooling device having a chamber for receiving target tissue of the region, at least one treatment interface, at least one thermoelectric cooling element operatively coupled to the at least one treatment interface, and at least one opening, wherein the cooling device is configured to reduce a temperature of the region such that lipid-rich cells in the target tissue are disrupted while non-lipid-rich cells in the subject's epidermis and/or are generally not injured;
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- a suction unit configured to draw air from the chamber through the at least one opening such that the target tissue is pulled into the chamber and into contact with the at least one treatment interface.
A treatment system for removing heat from subcutaneous lipid-rich cells of a region of a subject, comprising:
- a cooling device having a chamber configured to receive target tissue of the region, at least one treatment interface, at least one thermoelectric cooling element operatively coupled to the at least one treatment interface, and at least one opening, wherein the cooling device is configured to reduce a temperature of the region in the chamber such that lipid-rich cells in the target tissue are disrupted while non-lipid-rich cells in the subject's epidermis and/or dermis are generally not injured;
- a suction unit configured to draw a vacuum to pull the target tissue into the chamber towards the at least one treatment interface;
- a detector configured to provide temperature information;
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- a control unit coupled to the detector and programmed to control the cooling device based on the temperature information from the detector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.