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8152796 |
Method and apparatus for performing percutaneous laser disc decompression with vaporization monitoring by fluid displacement
Apparatus and method of performing percutaneous laser spinal disc decompression with the patient retaining consciousness. The clear plastic hub of a discectomy needle has a translucent hub with a...
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8142713 |
Hand sanitizer/sterilizer
A germicidal system and method for deactivating pathogens on the surface of a bodily extremity protected by a prophylactic covering substantially opaque to UV-C radiation. The device includes an...
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8137340 |
Apparatus and method for soft tissue ablation employing high power diode-pumped laser
The present invention discloses a high power diode-pumped laser for laser ablation of soft tissue. The present invention contemplates to operate the high power diode-pumped solid-state laser at a...
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8088124 |
System and method for precise beam positioning in ocular surgery
A system and method for ocular surgery includes a delivery system for generating and guiding a surgical laser beam to a focal point in a treatment area of an eye. Additionally, a contact device is...
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7970030 |
Dual pulse-width medical laser with presets
A medical laser device is described that generates a laser beam controllable with presets as to pulse duration, pulse repetition rate, power and energy per pulse. The device also provides presets...
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7963958 |
Portable optical ablation system
The present invention includes an apparatus and method of surgical ablative material removal “in-vivo” or from an outside surface with a short optical pulse that is amplified and compressed usi...
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7957440 |
Dual pulse-width medical laser
A laser device that includes a dual pulse-width laser-pumping circuit generates long and short laser pulses. The laser-pumping circuit employs a single power supply with dual high voltage outputs...
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7951139 |
Laser surgical apparatus
A laser surgical apparatus for performing treatment by irradiating a part to be treated by a laser beam is disclosed. This apparatus includes a laser source which emits the treatment laser beam; a...
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7918846 |
Method and system for laser treatment of refractive errors using offset imaging
An ophthalmological surgery system and method for performing ablative photodecomposition of the corneal surface by offset image scanning. The image of a variable aperture, such as a variable width...
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7869016 |
Fiber damage detection and protection device
A medical laser system and related methods of monitoring optical fibers to determine if an optical fiber cap on the optical fiber is in imminent danger of failure. The laser system includes a...
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7842029 |
Apparatus and method having a cooling material and reduced pressure to treat biological external tissue
Devices and methods having a cooling material and reduced pressures to treat biological external tissue using at least one energy source are disclosed. The cooling material may be water, ethyl...
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7717908 |
Method patterns for intrastromal refractive surgery
A method for performing intrastromal ophthalmic laser surgery requires Laser Induced Optical Breakdown (LIOB) of stromal tissue without compromising Bowman's capsule (membrane). In detail, the...
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7717907 |
Method for intrastromal refractive surgery
A method for performing intrastromal ophthalmic laser surgery requires Laser Induced Optical Breakdown (LIOB) of stromal tissue without compromising Bowman's capsule (membrane). In detail, the...
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7695468 |
Endoscopic surgery device
An endoscopic surgery device for the insertion and recovery of a haemostatic plug at the surgical site. The device comprises a tubular body suitable for slidingly housing the plug, and a plunger...
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7577471 |
Optical coherence tomography system
An optical coherence tomography system includes a catheter in which is arranged a plurality of light conducting fibers. It further includes a plurality of optical units. Light from the proximal end...
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7537591 |
Method and device for monitoring the energy and/or the position of a pulsed and scanned laser beam
A method for measuring at least one of an energy and a position of a pulsed laser beam, notably in an ophthalmologic excimer laser. The pulsed laser beam is intermittently directed at a sensor,...
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7510553 |
Medical energy irradiating apparatus
A temperature measuring unit of a temperature sensor has electrodes disposed on the upper and lower surfaces of a temperature measuring element, thin-film substrates disposed on the upper and lower...
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7498565 |
Method of and system for selective cell destruction
Method and apparatus for the ionization of living cells where an optical device (14) delivers an optical pulse having an optical field power which is modified locally by an optical field power...
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7479138 |
Laser pulse position monitor for scanned laser eye surgery systems
Devices, systems, and methods for measuring and determining positions of light energy having wavelengths of less than (as well as equal to or greater than) 200 nm, and are particularly well suited...
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7390089 |
Device and method for aligning an eye with a surgical laser
A device for establishing a desired alignment between a patient's eye and a laser system to facilitate an engagement therebetween includes a light source to illuminate the eye. A moveable platform...
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7331952 |
Method and apparatus for aesthetic skin treatments
An apparatus for aesthetic manipulation of the skin having a large pulsator with plurality of light emitting diodes of at least two different wavelengths and a small pulsator with one light...
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RE40002 |
Treatment of presbyopia and other eye disorders using a scanning laser system
Presbyopia is treated by a method which uses ablative lasers to ablate the sclera tissue and increase the accommodation of the ciliary body. Tissue bleeding is prevented by an ablative laser having...
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7309335 |
Dermatological treatment with visualization
The present invention provides a handheld dermatological device for visualizing a skin treatment region prior to, during, or after therapeutic treatment with therapeutic energy. An apparatus...
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7276058 |
Method and apparatus for treatment of cutaneous and subcutaneous conditions
The present invention provides method and apparatus for treating tissue in a region at depth while protecting non-targeted tissue by cyclically applying cooling to the patients skin, and preferably...
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7258687 |
Device and method for inducing vascular injury and/or blockage in an animal model
Ultrashort laser pulses are used to induce photodisruptive breakdown in vasculature in an animal to controllably produce hemorrhage, thrombosis or breach of the blood-brain barrier in individual,...
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7229435 |
Ophthalmic laser treatment apparatus
An ophthalmic laser treatment apparatus which irradiates a laser beam to a patient's eye to be treated is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a first optical fiber which delivers a first laser beam...
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7214222 |
Laser depilating method and laser depilating apparatus
A laser depilating method for depilating treatment by irradiating a skin surface with a laser beam emitted from a semiconductor laser. A treatment region of the skin surface is treated with a...
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7189226 |
Coaxial illuminated laser endoscopic probe and active numerical aperture control
A coaxial illuminated laser endoscopic probe and active numerical aperture control apparatus and method of use, succinctly known as an illumination and laser source, capable of selectively...
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7163533 |
Vascular treatment device and method
A catheter device for treating a vascular disease is provided. The catheter device includes an energy delivery device such as an optical fiber for delivering laser energy and a catheter. The...
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7033350 |
High power semiconductor laser diode
The present invention relates to a portable laser treatment device, comprising case (10), semiconductor laser diode (11) which is installed inside the case (10) and irradiates laser, condensing...
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7014639 |
Apparatus for aesthetic skin treatments
An apparatus for aesthetic manipulation of the skin having a large pulsator with plurality of light emitting diodes of at least two different wavelengths and a small pulsator with one light...
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6942657 |
Intralumenal contact sensor
An apparatus and method for phototherapy are described in which laser light or other radiation is projected from within a catheter, through a balloon member, and toward the surface of tissue. The...
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6939344 |
Method for controlling skin temperature during thermal treatment
A system and method for treating skin. The system comprises a source of radiation for irradiating the skin and a pair of electrodes for applying a voltage to the skin. An electrical meter measures...
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6932809 |
Safety shut-off device for laser surgical instruments employing blackbody emitters
Methods and systems are disclosed for detecting overheating in an optical device before harmful consequences, such as severe local heating, can result. In one embodiment of the invention, a...
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6913603 |
Automated laser workstation for high precision surgical and industrial interventions
A method and system is described that greatly improves the safety and efficacy of ophthalmic laser surgery. The method and system are applicable to precise operations on a target subject to...
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6887231 |
Control program for a device for photorefractive corneal surgery of the eye
In a control program, according to which a laser-beam spot is guided, while being controlled with respect to position and time, over a cornea to be corrected photorefractively, so as to ablate a...
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6872202 |
Laser slit lamp with laser radiation source
A laser slit lamp comprising a slit lamp base, a slit lamp head and a slit lamp microscope. The laser slit lamp is connected with an applicator. It comprises a device for uniting radiation from at...
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6869429 |
Apparatus for exterior arterial ablation
A method and apparatus for reducing the thickness of arterial walls is disclosed. Ablation of the exterior layer of the arterial walls is performed using mechanical or laser ablation techniques....
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6864478 |
Beam position monitoring for laser eye surgery
Improved methods, apparatus and systems for monitoring laser beam position enhance the safety and efficacy of laser eye surgery systems. The present invention will advantageously be used in laser...
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RE38670 |
Apparatus for tissue treatment
An apparatus for tissue treatment is provided, comprising a light emitter for emission of a first light beam, director for directing the first light beam towards a target area to be treated,...
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6819843 |
Device and method for photolithographically irradiating biological substances
A device and a method for the photolithographic exposure of biological substances is described, which comprises at least one light source, a bundle of optical fibers and a control unit, whereby...
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6817998 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring laser surgery
A method and system for laser surgery produces controlled laser pulses and simultaneously verifies that a correct sequence of pulses are being delivered to the patient. A photo detector receives a...
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6796978 |
Medical laser therapy device
A medical laser therapy device, particularly for use in ophthalmology and surgery, comprises a controllable pump module with a coupling element for a waveguide, a beam control device in the form of...
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RE38590 |
Operation apparatus for correcting ametropia with laser beam
An operation apparatus for ablating the cornea by laser beam and correcting ametropia of the eye comprising a diaphragm with variable aperture, which is disposed on the optical path along which the...
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6790205 |
Laser beam projector
A laser beam projector equipped with a CCD camera for taking a picture of a spot for treatment, thus permitting observation of the spot by sight. The laser beam projector has an annular projection...
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6782167 |
Light beam splitter
An apparatus that efficiently and accurately directs or splits a non-polarized light beam input from a fiber optic into one, two, four or eight output beams wherein the light beam input is passed...
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6775315 |
Apparatus and method of directing a laser beam to a thermally managed beam dump in a laser system
An optical bench for processing laser light in a laser system, including an optical bench housing, a beam dump mounted to the optical bench housing so as to be in optical communication therewith,...
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6764485 |
Thermal treatment apparatus
The thermal treatment apparatus is equipped with a laser generator for supplying laser beams, a laser irradiation unit for applying the supplied laser beams to tissues, and a control unit for...
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6761713 |
Medical laser unit
The medical laser unit (1) includes at least one laser body (3) being made of laser material (4). A first type of a pump light source (11) is designed and arranged to continuously excite the laser...
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6755818 |
Method and system for laser treatment of refractive errors using offset imaging
An ophthalmological surgery system and method for performing ablative photodecomposition of the corneal surface by offset image scanning. The image of a variable aperture, such as a variable width...
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