Patent ID: 7520875

Claim:
A system for enhancing absorption of a substance to be provided on a region of a patient's skin, comprising: a probe configured to provide the substance to the region of the patient's skin, the probe including a flexible tape with a plurality of cavities, and with an electrically conductive element provided at one end of each of the cavities; a substance holding material configured to temporarily hold the substance to be provided on the region of the patient's skin, the substance holding material being provided in each of the cavities; and a pulse generator configured to generate a sequence of bursts of electrical pulses to the electrically conductive elements provided within the cavities, so as to provide the bursts of electrical pulses to the region of the patient's skin, wherein the pulse generator includes a first set of transformers and a second set of transformers, the first and second sets being in number greater than one, wherein only one of the first set of transformers and only one of the second set of transformers outputs electrical pulses at any given point in time, and wherein the plurality of cavities comprises a first set of even-numbered cavities and a second set of odd-numbered cavities interleaved with each other, and wherein the first set of transformers is electrically connected only to the first set of even-numbered cavities and the second set of transformers is electrically connected only to the second set of odd-numbered cavities.