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Method and apparatus for the selective targeting of lipid-rich tissues

  • US 7,060,061 B2
  • Filed: 08/12/2003
  • Issued: 06/13/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/27/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for selectively targeting lipid-rich tissue to effect a desired treatment, said apparatus including:

  • a source of radiation at a wavelength for which absorption coefficients for fat and water have a ratio which is at least 0.5, wherein said wavelength is in a band which is at least one of 880 to 935 nm;

    1160 to 1230 nm, 1690 to 1780 nm, and 2250 nm to 2450 nm and said source when energized, providing the radiation at a fluence and for a duration sufficient for the desired treatment; and

    a component which is adapted to deliver the energy from said source to the lipid-rich tissue to be treated.

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