Laser medicine
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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 of laser, but especially:
- CO2 lasers,[2] used cut, vaporize, ablate and photo-coagulate soft tissue.[3]
- diode lasers[4]
- dye lasers[1][5]
- excimer lasers
- fiber lasers[6]
- gas lasers
- free electron lasers
- semiconductor diode lasers[7]
Applications in medicine
Medical areas that employ lasers include:
- angioplasty[5]
- cancer diagnosis[7][8]
- cancer treatment[9]
- cosmetic dermatology such as scar revision, skin resurfacing, laser hair removal, tattoo removal[5]
- dermatology,[5] to treat melanoma
- lithotripsy,[5]
- laser mammography[10]
- medical imaging[10]
- microscopy[11][12]
- ophthalmology (includes Lasik and laser photocoagulation)
- optical coherence tomography[6]
- prostatectomy
- plastic surgery, in laser liposuction[13]
- surgery,[6][14] to ablate and cauterize tissue
See also
Media related to Laser medicine at Wikimedia Commons
- Dental laser
- Endovenous laser therapy
- Laser-assisted new attachment procedure
- Laser surgery
- Light therapy
- Low level laser therapy
- Photodynamic therapy
- Photomedicine
- Soft-tissue laser surgery
References
- ^ a b Duarte F. J.; Hillman, L.W. (1990). Dye Laser Principles, with Applications. Boston: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-222700-X.
- ^ Polanyi, T.G. (1970). "A CO2 Laser for Surgical Research". Med. & Biol. Engng. 8: 541–548. doi:10.1007/bf02478228.
- ^ "Soft-Tissue Laser Surgery - CO2 Surgical Laser - LightScalpel". LightScalpel. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e Costela A, Garcia-Moreno I, Gomez C (2016). "Medical Applications of Organic Dye Lasers". In Duarte FJ (ed.). Tunable Laser Applications (3rd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 293–313. ISBN 9781482261066.
- ^ a b c Popov S (2016). "Fiber Laser Overview and Medical Applications". In Duarte FJ (ed.). Tunable Laser Applications (3rd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 263–292. ISBN 9781482261066.
- ^ a b Duarte FJ (2016). "Broadly Tunable External-Cavity Semiconductor Lasers". In Duarte FJ (ed.). Tunable Laser Applications (3rd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 203–241. ISBN 9781482261066.
- ^ Duarte, Francisco Javier Eastman Kodak Company (Sep 28, 1988), Two-laser therapy and diagnosis device, retrieved 2016-04-18
- ^ Goldman L (1990). "Dye Lasers in Medicine". Dye Laser Principles. Boston: Academic Press. pp. 419–32. ISBN 0-12-222700-X.
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- ^ Orr BJ; Haub J G; He Y; White RT (2016). "Spectroscopic Applications of Pulsed Tunable Optical Parametric Oscillators". In Duarte FJ (ed.). Tunable Laser Applications (3rd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 17–142. ISBN 9781482261066.
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- ^ "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.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Jelinkova H, ed. (2013). Lasers for Medical Applications: Diagnostics, Therapy, and Surgery. Oxford: Woodhead. ISBN 978 0 85709 237 3.