Patent ID: 9700340
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61H,A61N

Claim:
1. A method for providing treatment to a patient, the method comprising: coupling an ultrasound transducer to a skin surface of a patient; emitting energy from the ultrasound transducer in a frequency range from about 10 MHz to about 30 MHz or in a frequency range from about 20 MHz to about 500 MHz into a superficial region of interest below the skin surface of the patient, the superficial region of interest consisting of a subcutaneous layer of skin, thereby ablating tissue in a portion of the region of interest, thereby creating a lesion in the tissue at a depth of a range of 0.1 μm to 100 μm below the skin surface; and sparing tissue at the depth of greater than 100 μm below the skin surface from damage from the ablating tissue.