Patent ID: 6872221

Claim:
A therapeutic laser system, comprising: a housing sized and shaped to be comfortably held in the hand of an operator, and having a front and a back, and a substantially planar diode array mounted in a recessed manner on said back of said housing, and having a center and four sets of laser diodes each having a first, second and third laser diode, each said set being arranged in an equilateral triangle, said sets being equally spaced about said center with said first laser diodes of each said set being spaced a first distance from said center of said diode array, and said second and third laser diodes being spaced a greater second distance from said center of said diode array, and each of said first, second and third laser diodes having a beam, said beams overlapping, whereby said diode array projects a resultants composite beam that is directed at selected tissue to impart energy into said tissue.