Apparatus for therapeutic EMR treatment of the skin

摘要

Apparatus 208 is provided for performing a treatment on a volume of a patient's skin which includes a radiation source 210, a mechanism 215 that cools the patient's skin to a selected temperature, controls 218 for selectively operating the mechanism to cool the skin for a selected duration during application of radiation and an optical system 212 to which radiation from the source is applied, the optical system concentrating the radiation to a depth in the volume and to selected areas of the volume to define three dimensional treatment portions, the treatment portions being less than the total volume, each portion being substantially surrounded by untreated skin.