An apparatus for laser therapy comprises a frame on which a plurality of lasers slide at several wavelengths in motorized and automated manner for applying the laser on and through the skin and mucous membranes of a patient. The frame is also motorized, allowing installation on the patient without moving the patient from bed. The apparatus is programmed to determine treatment autonomously on the basis of parameters determined by the apparatus during pretreatment and to vary treatment parameters in real time for treatment optimization and safety purposes.

An apparatus for laser therapy comprises a frame on which a plurality of lasers slide at several wavelengths in motorized and automated manner for applying the laser on and through the skin and mucous membranes of a patient. The frame is also motorized, allowing installation on the patient without moving the patient from bed. The apparatus is programmed to determine treatment autonomously on the basis of parameters determined by the apparatus during pretreatment and to vary treatment parameters in real time for treatment optimization and safety purposes.

Systems and methods for a laser-assisted topical treatment of nail fungal infections are provided. The laser-assisted topical treatment includes a laser that is configured to output a beam that penetrates the infected nail and creates a channel therethrough. The laser-assisted topical treatment further includes a treatment agent comprising a vehicle and a drug. The treatment agent is applied to an exterior surface of the infected nail so that the treatment agent may flow into the channel.

The present invention provides improved methods and apparatus that use machine vision techniques to rapidly and automatically guide objects into desired docking configurations. The present invention is based at least in part upon using multi-depth, rotationally symmetric targets that are observed from two or more observation perspectives. By taking advantage of parallax effects associated with the multi-depth topography of the target, the apparent positions of target features in captured image information encodes position and angular alignment of the objects relative to each other in three dimensional space. The practice of the present invention provides a fast, accurate, reliable and automatic approach to achieve hard or soft docking configurations in the electron beam therapies as well as to implement real-time gating and tracking during the course of a treatment.

An object of the present invention is to provide a chair-type phototherapy device that enables a patient to perform light irradiation accurately targeted at a treatment site in a seated position on a chair and consequently achieves effective phototherapy even when the treatment site is in the back region that the patient is unable to see, for example, as in light irradiation for dysuria patients and patients with pain, and the patient performs light irradiation by himself/herself at home. The present invention provides a chair-type phototherapy device having a seat on which a patient is seated. The chair-type phototherapy device includes a radiation module configured to emit radiation light toward a living body, a drive module positioned behind the patient for moving the radiation module, and a fixing module fixing the drive module to the seat.

Systems and methods for a laser-assisted topical treatment of nail fungal infections are provided. The laser-assisted topical treatment includes a laser that is configured to output a beam that penetrates the infected nail and creates a channel therethrough. The laser-assisted topical treatment further includes a treatment agent comprising a vehicle and a drug. The treatment agent is applied to an exterior surface of the infected nail so that the treatment agent may flow into the channel.

A control unit 30 includes: an image storage unit 31 constituted by a first image storage unit 32 that stores multiple templates created on the basis of an image including a specific site of a subject and a second image storage unit 33 that stores multiple positive images created on the basis of an image including the specific site of the subject; a learning unit 34 that, on the basis of the multiple positive images, creates a discriminator by machine learning; a position selection unit 35 that, with use of multiple images obtained by collecting an image including the specific site of the subject at a predetermined frame rate, selects a region including the specific site by machine learning using the discriminator; and a position detection unit 36 that detects the position of the specific site by performing template matching using the multiple templates on the region including the specific site selected by the position selection unit 35.

A control unit 30 includes: an image storage unit 31 constituted by a first image storage unit 32 that stores multiple templates created on the basis of an image including a specific site of a subject and a second image storage unit 33 that stores multiple positive images created on the basis of an image including the specific site of the subject; a learning unit 34 that, on the basis of the multiple positive images, creates a discriminator by machine learning; a position selection unit 35 that, with use of multiple images obtained by collecting an image including the specific site of the subject at a predetermined frame rate, selects a region including the specific site by machine learning using the discriminator; and a position detection unit 36 that detects the position of the specific site by performing template matching using the multiple templates on the region including the specific site selected by the position selection unit 35.

Provided is a focusing head, including: a cartridge configured to carry a plurality of radiation sources; a shielding roller with the cartridge therein; a first driving assembly connected to the cartridge and configured to drive the cartridge to rotate; and a second driving assembly connected to the shielding roller and configured to drive the shielding roller to rotate.

A wireless optogenetic device in proximity to a neural cell of a subject includes a body configured to hold light transducing materials arranged to up-convert electromagnetic radiation in infrared or near-infrared spectrum into light in the visible spectrum to affect activity of the neural cell. The body allows electromagnetic radiation in infrared or near-infrared to reach the light transducing materials. A radiation system includes a radiation probe for irradiating a wireless optogenetic device with electromagnetic radiation in infrared or near-infrared spectrum from a radiation source. The system further includes a movement mechanism for moving the radiation probe, a detector for detecting a location of the wireless optogenetic device, and a controller for controlling the movement mechanism based on the detected location of the wireless optogenetic device such that the radiation probe is arranged to irradiate the wireless optogenetic device at the detected location with the electromagnetic radiation.