Laser medicine
Laser medicine consists in the use of lasers in medical diagnosis, treatments, or therapies, such as laser photodynamic therapy,[1] photorejuvenation, and laser surgery.
Lasers
Lasers used in medicine include in principle any type of laser, but especially:
- CO2 lasers,[2] used to 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
Examples of procedures, practices, devices, and specialties where lasers are utilized include:
- angioplasty[5]
- cancer diagnosis[7][8]
- cancer treatment[9]
- Dentistry
- cosmetic dermatology such as scar revision, skin resurfacing, laser hair removal, tattoo removal[5]
- dermatology,[5] to treat melanoma
- frenectomy
- lithotripsy[5]
- laser mammography[10]
- medical imaging[10]
- microscopy[11][12]
- ophthalmology (includes Lasik and laser photocoagulation)
- optical coherence tomography[6]
- optogenetics[13]
- prostatectomy
- plastic surgery, in laser liposuction,[14] and in treatment of skin lesions (congenital and acquired) and in scar management (burns and surgical scars)
- surgery,[6][15] to cut, ablate, and cauterize tissue
See also
Media related to Laser medicine at Wikimedia Commons
References
- 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". Medical & Biological Engineering. 8 (6): 541–548. doi:10.1007/bf02478228. PMID 5509040. S2CID 40078928.
- "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. PMID 8078384. S2CID 11569698.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 (Sep 28, 1988), Two-laser therapy and diagnosis device, EP0284330A1, retrieved 2016-04-18
- Goldman L (1990). "Dye Lasers in Medicine". In Duarte FJ; Hillman LM (eds.). Dye Laser Principles. Boston: Academic Press. pp. 419–32. ISBN 0-12-222700-X.
- Carroll FE (2008). "Pulsed, Tunable, Monochromatic X-rays: Medical and Non-Medical Applications". In Duarte FJ (ed.). Tunable Laser Applications (2nd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 281–310. ISBN 978-1-4200-6009-6.
- 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.
- Thomas JL, Rudolph W (2008). "Biological Microscopy with Ultrashort Laser Pulses". In Duarte FJ (ed.). Tunable Laser Applications (2nd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 245–80. ISBN 978-1-4200-6009-6.
- Penzkofer A; Hegemann P; Kateriya S (2018). "Organic dyes in optogenetics". In Duarte FJ (ed.). Organic Lasers and Organic Photonics. London: Institute of Physics. pp. 13–1 to 13–114. ISBN 978-0-7503-1570-8.
- Przylipiak AF, Galicka E, Donejko M, Niczyporuk M, Przylipiak J (Oct 2013). "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 Design, Development and Therapy. 7: 1195–200. doi:10.2147/DDDT.S50828. PMC 3798112. PMID 24143076.
- Jelinkova H, ed. (2013). Lasers for Medical Applications: Diagnostics, Therapy, and Surgery. Oxford: Woodhead. ISBN 978-0-85709-237-3.
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