Thermal Treatment Device for Full Body Contouring

Project Description:
There has been several recent advancements in the global aesthetics market, including innovations in treatment serums, masks, numbing cream, recovery agents, and body contouring. Methods for body contouring in aesthetic medical practices now include thermal treatments that heat a patient’s adipose fat tissue via radio frequencies. It is still unknown, however, how to optimize this novel method to provide personalized treatments.

The aim of this project is to develop a thermal treatment device for body contouring that provides automated treatment feedback from various sensors and thermal imaging that is then used to optimize a radio frequency to heat the patient’s adipose tissue to therapeutic temperature. The frequency output would be emitted by a thermal transmitter that would receive data from the sensors and thermal imaging device to control the time duration, directionality, and frequency level. By automating these features of the treatment, an individualized thermal treatment protocol can be developed to optimize full body contouring as well as improve the duration of the treatment compared to commercial products, such as the BTL Vanquish that can only treat one body part at a time.

Project Mentor:
Industry Sponsored Mentor: MaryAnn Guerra, President and CEO, Aesthetics Biomedical, mguerra@aestheticsbiomed.com
Physician Mentor: Shawn Wooten, Research and Development Manager, Aesthetics Biomedical, ShaunW@aestheticsbiomed.com

Other Resources:
Note: students will need to sign an IP agreement to work on this project.
Aesthetics Biomedical Patent: System and method for providing treatment feedback for a thermal treatment device Patent No.: US 9,198,735 B2 https://patents.google.com/patent/US9198735

Team Members:

Ana Paula Acosta, Christian Elliot Aguilar, Jacqueline Magdalena De Iuna, Jamie Myha Le, Christina Leung, Jonathan Albert Salazar