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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 21, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Boston University, both of, MA (US);
Candela Laser Corp., both of, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606-9 ; 606-2 ; 606-3 ; 607 89 ; 607 94 ;
Abstract
A cutaneous pigmented lesion is treated by irradiation with laser light of between 345 and 600 nm and preferably about 500 nm wavelength. The fluence is between 1 and 10 J/Cm.sup.2 and preferably between 2 and 4 J/cm.sup.2 . The pulse duration is less than 1 .mu.sec and preferably less than 500 nsec. A 3 mm diameter spot is illuminated.