Patent ID: 8291913

Claim:
A method for automatically controlling treatment of tissue with optical pulses, comprising: irradiating a first site in a portion of tissue with a first optical pulse; following the irradiation, automatically making a measurement of a tissue property at the first site; based on the measurement, automatically adjusting a parameter of a second optical pulse according to an algorithm selected from the group consisting of a moving simplex algorithm, a neural net algorithm, and a fuzzy logic algorithm; irradiating a second site in the portion of tissue with the second optical pulse in order to provide treatment of the tissue at a pre-determined treatment level; irradiating other sites in the portion of tissue with other optical pulses; following the irradiation, automatically making measurements of the tissue property at the other sites; and taking a weighted average of the measurements, wherein the step of automatically adjusting the parameter of the second optical pulse is based on the weighted average of the measurements.