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Light Dose Database

Search for red light therapy studies on specific health conditions:

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Acne Blue and Red Light Dose

Blue and red light combination LED phototherapy for acne vulgaris in patients with skin phototype IV Background and objectives: Blue ...
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Acne Handheld Device Blue and Red Dose

Handheld LED array device in the treatment of acne vulgaris Neil S Sadick 1 Affiliations expand PMID: 18459515 Abstract The ...
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Acne Portable LED Red Light Dose

Background: Recently, a demand for safe and effective treatment of acne has been increasing. Although visible light has attracted attention ...
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Acne Red but Not Infrared Light Therapy Dose

Background/purpose: Acne vulgaris is a very prevalent skin disorder and remains a main problem in practice. Recently, phototherapy with various light ...
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Acne Reduction Green Light Dose

Green Light Treated Acne Reduced by 67% The researchers were looking for reduced acne, reduced redness, and reduced swelling compared ...
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Acne Reduction with 415 nm Blue and 660 nm Light Therapy

Phototherapy with blue (415 nm) and red (660 nm) light in the treatment of acne vulgaris P Papageorgiou 1, A ...
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Acne Treatment Using 415 nm and 633 nm LED Therapy

Combination blue (415 nm) and red (633 nm) LED phototherapy in the treatment of mild to severe acne vulgaris David ...
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Acne Vulgaris Alternating Red and Blue Light Dose

Background and objective: Acne vulgaris remains a major problem in dermatological practice. Phototherapy for acne with blue (415 nm) and red ...
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Acne Vulgaris in Women Red Light Dose

Background: During the past few years, various phototherapeutic protocols with full-spectrum visible light or selected wavebands have been investigated in ...
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Chinese Patient Acne Reduction Blue and Red Light Dose

ackground and Aims Acne vulgaris is common in A sian populations. We compared three methods of phototherapy for the treatment ...
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Increase Lymphatic Activity Blue, Red, and Infrared Light Dose

420 nm, 7.4 J/area Edge Systems (Signal Hill, CA) Delphia del Sol 420 600–700 700–1000 7.4 J per treatment area ...
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Korean Acne Reduction Using Home Red and Blue Light Dose

Background Blue and red light have been reported to have beneficial effects on acne. However, there has been no double‐blind, ...
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Reduced Rosacea Red Light Dose

830 nm, 1/week for 6 weeks, 20 m, 60 J/cm^2/session, eliminated small acneiform papules, decreased redness Elimnate rosacea small acneiform ...
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Teenage Acne Reduction Blue and Red Light Dose

number of comedones, papules and pustules decreased significantly at the end of the session. red and blue combined were better ...
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Treating Acne and Rosacea with Chromophore Gel with Broadband Light

Photodynamic Light Therapy When applied with a topical substance, light therapy becomes photodynamic therapy (PDT). Kleresca is a photodynamic therapy ...
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Treating Acne with Alternating Red Light Therapy with Blue Light Therapy

A Comparative Study Between Once-Weekly and Alternating Twice-Weekly Regimen Using Blue (470 nm) and Red (640 nm) Light Combination LED ...

Search the Photobiomodulation Database for studies on health conditions:

This is the EMF Channel database of light therapy study doses. After getting the results, click to view more study details. Only successful studies are included. 99% of the studies here are on humans, not animals. This database is a work in progress. Many thanks to Vlad for his PBM database. When the data here references his work, the detail page includes a link to the PBM spreadsheet.

About the EMF Channel Light Dose Database

Many people purchase red light therapy or neuromuscular electrical stimulation devices without knowing optimal doses for the results they want to see. The right dose is especially key to light therapies, which have optimal windows of wavelength and energy delivered. Treatment doses outside of those windows will nullify results or harm the user. I took the results from successful EMF studies when these studies included:

  • Photobiomodulation (Red Light Therapy, Blue Light Therapy, Low Level Light Therapy)
  • Transcutaneous Electromagnetic Nerve Stimulation (TENS)
  • Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) Therapy
  • Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES)

Many studies do not report exact dose parameters they used. They are therefore not included here, even the study reported a therapeutic result.

Table: Light Dose Parameters

Term

Parameter

Time

Seconds

Power

Milliwatts (mW) or Watts (W)

Total Dose Energy

joules (J) = power x time = Watts x seconds

Wavelength

Nanometers (nm)

Frequency

Hertz (Hz)

Spot Size

Squared Centimeters (cm^2)

Duty Cycle

Percentage of time light source is on per cycle

Power Density

Watts per centimeters squared (W/cm(2) = power / probe size

Fluence

Joules per Centimeters Squared (J/cm^2) = total energy delivered by the probe size

Source: Turchin, Curtis. Light and Laser Therapy: Clinical Procedures 6th Edition (p. 16)