Laser medicine
CW rhodamine dye laser emitting near 590 nm, one typically used in early medical laser systems.
Laser radiation being delivered, via a fiber, for photodynamic therapy to treat cancer.
A 40 watt CO2 laser with applications in ENT, gynecology, dermatology, oral surgery, and podiatry
Laser medicine consists in the use of lasers in medical diagnosis, treatments, or therapies, such as laser photodynamic therapy.[1]
Lasers
Lasers used in medicine include in principle any type or laser design, but especially:
- CO2 lasers,[2] used to vaporize tissue
- diode lasers[3]
- dye lasers[1][4]
- excimer lasers
- fiber lasers[5]
- gas lasers
- free electron lasers
- Semiconductor diode lasers
Applications in medicine
Medical areas that employ lasers include:
- angioplasty[4]
- cancer diagnosis[6][7]
- cancer treatment[8]
- cosmetic dermatology such as scar revision, skin resurfacing, laser hair removal, tattoo removal[4]
- dermatology,[4] to treat melanoma
- lithotripsy,[4]
- laser mammography[9]
- medical imaging[9]
- microscopy[10][11]
- ophthalmology (includes Lasik and laser photocoagulation)
- optical coherence tomography[5]
- prostatectomy
- plastic surgery, in laser liposuction[12]
- surgery,[5][13] to ablate and cauterize tissue
See also
Media related to Laser medicine at Wikimedia Commons
- Endovenous laser therapy
- Laser-assisted new attachment procedure
- Light therapy
- Low level laser therapy
- Photodynamic therapy
- Photomedicine
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Duarte F. J.; Hillman, L.W. (1990). Dye Laser Principles, with Applications. Boston: Academic Press.
- ↑ Polanyi, T.G. (1970). "A CO2 Laser for Surgical Research". Med. & Biol. Engng. 8: 541–548. doi:10.1007/bf02478228.
- ↑ Loevschall, Henrik (1994). "Effect of low level diode laser irradiation of human oral mucosa fibroblasts in vitro". Lasers in Surgery and Medicine 14 (4): 347–354. doi:10.1002/lsm.1900140407.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Costela A; Garcia-Moreno I; Sastre R (2008). "Medical Applications of Dye Lasers". In Duarte FJ. Tunable Laser Applications (2nd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 227–244. ISBN 1-4200-6009-0.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Popov S (2008). "Fiber Laser Overview and Medical Applications". In Duarte FJ. Tunable Laser Applications (2nd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 197–226. ISBN 1-4200-6009-0.
- ↑ Duarte F J, Two-laser therapy and diagnosis device, EP 0284330 A1 (22nd of March, 1988).
- ↑ Duarte FJ (2008). "Broadly Tunable External-Cavity Semiconductor Lasers". In Duarte FJ. Tunable Laser Applications (2nd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 143–177. ISBN 1-4200-6009-0.
- ↑ Goldman L (1990). "Dye Lasers in Medicine". In Duarte FJ; Hillman LM. Dye Laser Principles. Boston: Academic Press. pp. 419–32. ISBN 0-12-222700-X.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Carroll FE (2008). "Pulsed, Tunable, Monochromatic X-rays: Medical and Non-Medical Applications". In Duarte FJ. Tunable Laser Applications (2nd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 281–310. ISBN 1-4200-6009-0.
- ↑ Orr BJ; He Y; White RT (2008). "Spectroscopic Applications of Pulsed Tunable Optical Parametric Oscillators". In Duarte FJ. Tunable Laser Applications (2nd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 15–96. ISBN 1-4200-6009-0.
- ↑ Thomas JL; Rudolph W (2008). "Biological Microscopy with Ultrashort Laser Pulses". In Duarte FJ. Tunable Laser Applications (2nd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 245–80. ISBN 1-4200-6009-0.
- ↑ "A comparative study of internal laser-assisted and conventional liposuction: a look at the influence of drugs and major surgery on laboratory postoperative values.". Drug Des Devel Ther. 7: 1195–200. Oct 2013. doi:10.2147/DDDT.S50828. PMID 24143076.
- ↑ Jelinkova H, ed. (2013). Lasers for Medical Applications: Diagnostics, Therapy, and Surgery. Oxford: Woodhead. ISBN 978 0 85709 237 3.
