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Light dispensing apparatus

US8814923B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Valkee OY · FI

Inventors

Juuso Nissila · Kuivaniemi, FI
Antti Aunio · Oulu, FI

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 13, 2012
Grant date	Aug 26, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 13, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61N2005/0662
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

There is provided an apparatus, a method and a computer program. The apparatus comprises medical imaging unit for generating a group of voxel values of a patient, a voxel value representing an electromagnetically detectable functional state in a brain voxel of the patient, data processing unit for generating from the group of voxel values of the patient an indication that represents a level of a specific medical disorder of the patient, and illumination unit for directing non-invasively a dose of light to the brain of the patient.

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