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Device and method for providing phototherapy to the heart

  • US 10,695,577 B2
  • Filed: 04/06/2004
  • Issued: 06/30/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of treating a patient'"'"'s heart, the method comprising:

  • providing a therapy apparatus that emits light having a controllably variable power density, the therapy apparatus comprising a plurality of light sources and defining two or more groups of the light sources, each of the defined groups of the light sources comprising two or more of the light sources from the plurality of light sources that are configured to be selectively activated together as a group;

    positioning the therapy apparatus relative to the patient'"'"'s heart with intervening tissue including lung tissue of the patient between the plurality of light sources and the patient'"'"'s heart; and

    selectively activating two or more of the groups of the light sources in manners that differ in comparison to each other and directing light emitted from the two or more of the groups of the light sources onto cardiac tissue of the patient'"'"'s heart through the intervening tissue without damaging the intervening tissue, wherein the light emitted from the two or more groups of the light sources is simultaneously activated during the patient'"'"'s breathing cycle to provide a therapy pattern, and wherein the light is directed onto the cardiac tissue during selected portions of the patient'"'"'s breathing cycle during which a percentage of the intervening lung tissue is at a minimum.

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