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Fabric imbued with optical fibers helps fight skin diseases
« on: March 05, 2018, 05:00:20 pm »

Fabric imbued with optical fibers helps fight skin diseases
February 23, 2018 by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress report
 
 

A team of researchers with Texinov Medical Textiles in France has announced that their PHOS-ISTOS system, called the Fluxmedicare, is on track to be made commercially available later this year. The system consists of a piece of fabric imbued with optical fibers and a control mechanism. The system is meant to be used for treatment of skin diseases such as acne, psoriasis and actinic keratosis.

The goal of the project was to create a flexible light-emitting textile for use in photodynamic therapy (PDT) of actinic keratoses—a skin disease characterized by rough patches. The program was initiated in response to requests by people in the medical community looking to replace traditional PDT systems—systems currently in use involve large light panels directed at patients which in addition to treating skin, cause redness and severe pain.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-fabric-imbued-optical-fibers-skin.html