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🧑 Human 🎲 Randomized trial, double-blind 👥 80 participants ⌛ 20-week treatment / 24-week study · 2022 · Korea (Cheonan)

The efficacy and safety of the combination of photobiomodulation therapy and pulsed electromagnetic field therapy on androgenetic alopecia

Choi & Park · J Cosmet Dermatol · 2022

The protocol this study used

Wavelength
660, 808 nm
Dose
40.1 J/cm²
Sessions
12
Per session
15 min

What the authors concluded

The baseline hair density was 114.57 (±28.75)/cm2 and 113.31 (±30.07)/cm2 in both treatment and control groups. After 24 weeks of treatment, the mean hair density increased to 139.37 (±31.4)/cm2 in the treatment group but only to 119.78 (±31.92)/cm2 in the control group." Comment: Parameters were inadequately described.

Devices that emit this wavelength

Matched on wavelength within 15nm, since LED bins vary by roughly that much and a tighter match would be false precision. Where we have an irradiance figure, the session length is the time needed to reach this study's dose of 40.1 J/cm² at that intensity.

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MitoPRO 1500+
630 · 660 · 830 · 850 nm
Measured
$1,169
≈ 8 min 44 sec / session
at 76.5 mW/cm²
MitoPRO 1500X
590 · 630 · 660 · 810 · 830 · 850 nm
Measured
$1,299
≈ 12 min 30 sec / session
at 53.5 mW/cm²
PlatinumLED BIOMAX 900
480 · 630 · 660 · 810 · 830 · 850 · 1060 nm
Measured
$1,299
≈ 7 min 24 sec / session
at 90.3 mW/cm²
HoogaHealth PRO1500
660 · 850 nm
Measured
$1,199
≈ 7 min 46 sec / session
at 86 mW/cm²
Joovv Solo 3.0
660 · 850 nm
Measured
$1,499
≈ 11 min 17 sec / session
at 59.2 mW/cm²
LUMEBOX 2.0
660 · 850 nm
Measured
$629
≈ 5 min 21 sec / session
at 125 mW/cm²

Matching a wavelength is not the same as reproducing a trial. Session times assume the device's published irradiance is accurate at the distance it was measured, which on brand-claim figures is often optimistic. Where a device publishes both a peak and an average we use the average, and where it publishes a falloff curve we use the lowest figure, so these times run long rather than short. Clinical protocols also control for spot size, contact and skin type in ways a home device cannot.

Source

Dosimetry extracted by Vladimir Heiskanen in Photobiomodulation (PBM) research - a comprehensive database. Citation resolved against PubMed.