Non-invasive quantitative body contouring by high intensive focused ultrasound

摘要

An apparatus is invented for breaking adipose tissue involving delivering ultrasonic energy at a multiplicity of target layers of volume under the skin. The delivered ultrasound is focused on the target layers. One or a plurality of ultrasonic focuses scan the target layers. The scanning ultrasonic focuses break the adipose tissue quantitatively, while other non-adipose tissues are generally not broken. The quantitative breaking process of adipose tissue is performed by quantitative feedback information. Another ultrasound of different frequency helps to move the broken adipose tissue away from the targeted volumes in body circulation. An ultrasound transducer assembly has at least one transducer array of high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and at least one transducer of high intensity unfocused ultrasound.