APPARATUS FOR THERAPEUTIC EMR TREATMENT OF SKIN

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for performing a treatment on a volume located at area and depth coordinates of a patient's skin, and the method involving providing a radiation source. SOLUTION: A method and apparatus are provided for performing a therapeutic treatment on a patient's skin by concentrating applied radiation of at least one selected wavelength at a plurality of selected, three-dimensionally located, treatment portions, which treatment portions are within non-treatment portions. The ratio of treatment portions to the total volume may vary from 0.1% to 90%, but is preferably less than 50%. Various techniques, including wavelength, may be utilized to control the depth to which radiation is concentrated and suitable optical systems may be provided to concentrate applied radiation in parallel or in series for selected combinations of one or more treatment portions. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT