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Device and method for providing phototherapy to the heart

  • US 20040260367A1
  • Filed: 04/06/2004
  • Published: 12/23/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of treating a patient'"'"'s heart, the method comprising:

  • providing a light source which emits light having an initial power density;

    positioning the light source relative to the patient'"'"'s heart with intervening tissue of the patient between the light source and the patient'"'"'s heart; and

    directing light onto cardiac tissue of the patient'"'"'s heart from the light source through the intervening tissue without damaging the intervening tissue, the cardiac tissue being irradiated by an efficacious power density of light for an efficacious period of time.

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