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Abstract

A laser treatment apparatus for performing treatment by irradiating a skin of a patient with a laser beam for treatment is disclosed. The apparatus includes: an irradiation unit including a laser source which emits a treatment laser beam and an irradiation optical system which delivers the treatment laser beam from the laser source to a treatment part of the skin to irradiate the part; a skin color detection unit including an imaging element which takes a picture image of the skin to be irradiated and an image processing section which detects a color of the imaged skin; a determination unit which determines an irradiation condition including at least one of output power of the treatment laser beam, irradiation time, irradiation density, and irradiation energy; a memory which stores data on the skin color detected by the detection unit and, in association therewith, data on the irradiation condition determined by the determination unit; and a control section which automatically determines an irradiation condition based on data on a skin color that is newly detected and the data having been stored in the memory, and transmits a control signal representative of the determined irradiation condition to the irradiation unit for control of irradiation of the treatment laser beam.

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