Patent ID: 9561077
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61N,G01N,G02B,G02F,G06N

Claim:
1. A method of photo-activating molecular components within a matrix and/or cells of biological tissue to be treated for a specified medical condition, comprising the steps of exposing the tissue to pulses of supercontinuum (SC) light that has a spectral irradiance equal to at least 1 GW/nm cm 2 that creates nonlinear optical effects in materials that excites molecules into upper electronic states and disassociates polyatomic bonds causing a breakdown in organic molecules for at least one of the following medical and biological applications: healing wounds, burns, cuts and bruises, fusing arteries, reducing scarring, producing angiogenesis, stimulating nerves, and killing bacteria, viruses and cancer cells; selecting at least one predetermined band of the supercontinuum light to excite electronic states of native molecules and/or overtone and combinational vibrational states of the native molecules associated with specified medical condition; and adjusting the rate of said pulses and duration of exposure to treat the specified medical condition using one, two and three photon absorption using selected zones in SC light.