This invention provides methods and systems uniquely capable of enhancing
medicant delivery and/or effectiveness through the use of energy to
predictably disrupt membranes and mechanically and thermally modulate
cells and tissues. In exemplary embodiments, the methods and systems
disclosed herein are capable of modulating multiple layers of tissue. In
an exemplary embodiment, the energy is acoustic energy (e.g.,
ultrasound). In other exemplary embodiments, the energy is photon based
energy (e.g., IPL, LED, laser, white light, etc.), or other energy forms,
such radio frequency electric currents, or various combinations of
acoustic energy, electromagnetic energy and other energy forms or energy
absorbers such as cooling. Medicants can be first introduced to the
region of interest by diffusion, circulation, and/or injection. An
exemplary system for enhancing medicant delivery and/or effectiveness
comprises a control system, a probe, and a display or indicator system.
Imaging and/or monitoring may alternatively be coupled and/or co-housed
with an ultrasound system contemplated by the present invention.