Methods useful in optimizing the treatment of neuropathies and targeting tissues with cosmetic botulinum injections

US11259740B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Research Foundation for The State University of New York · US

Inventors

• Divya Bhatnagar · Stony Brook, US
• Miriam Rafailovich · Plainview, US
• Raphael Davis · Port Jefferson, US
• Alexander B. Dagum · Stony Brook, US
• Duc T. Bui · Houston, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 3, 2018
• Grant date: Mar 1, 2022
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B5/4839
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present invention pertains to methods of determining where, on the skin, a diagnostic, therapeutic, or cosmetic agent is likely to be most effectively applied (e.g., injected), and to methods for monitoring a patient after such an agent has been administered. The monitoring can produce information useful in determining whether a diagnostic, therapeutic (e.g., surgical), or cosmetic regime should be initiated, continued, continued in a modified fashion, or terminated (e.g., for a brief or prolonged period of time). The methods can be repeated periodically and use a non-invasive, in vivo form of digital image speckle correlation (DISC) to track deformation of the skin.