At 4MHz, thermal tissue alteration is limited to within 20 microns of the surgical site. That is a factor of 100 times less damaging than conventional electrosurgery.

Advanced Radio Wave surgery works because living tissue exhibits a resistance to the close proximity of the 4MHz of frequency radio energy. This resistance will induce localised heat at temperatures high enough to vaporise the moisture content of the individual tissue cells, causing each cell to be destroyed, a process called volatilisation.

Critically, the patient does not become part of an electrical circuit, and the active electrode remains cold at all times. In high frequency Radiosurgery, the antennae plate, simply attached to the patient’s calf or other muscle mass, picks up radio waves from the small active operating electrode, completing a radio wave circuit. When this electrode is in contact with the target tissue, volatilisation occurs and heat is only induced in that cell. There is a significant reduction in damage to the surrounding tissues in comparison to other RF units.

Resulting from the high-precision and low temperature, there is no peripheral tissue charring or scarring, and rapid healing is promoted. Clinical results have shown decreased post-surgical pain and oedema.