• DocumentCode
    2270825
  • Title

    Quantitative understanding of skin tissue ablation from UV to NIR with a new plasma model

  • Author

    Qiyin Fang ; Xin-Hua Hu

  • Author_Institution
    Biomed. Laser Lab., East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC, USA
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    24-24 May 2002
  • Firstpage
    409
  • Abstract
    Summary from only given. A plasma model can provide satisfactory explanation to the experimental results on soft tissue ablation by short ultraviolet laser pulses and illustrate the fundamental mechanism underlying the tissue ablations. By considering quantitatively the thermal ionization pathway this new plasma model demonstrates, in contrary to the photochemical and photomechanical models, that the ionization is the cause of the tissue ablation in a wide spectral region from ultraviolet to near-infrared.
  • Keywords
    biological effects of laser radiation; biothermics; ionisation; laser applications in medicine; physiological models; plasma production by laser; radiation therapy; skin; fundamental mechanism; near-infrared; plasma model; short ultraviolet laser pulses; skin tissue ablation; soft tissue ablation; thermal ionization pathway; wide spectral region; Drugs; Free electron lasers; Ionization; Laser ablation; Laser modes; Laser theory; Plasma chemistry; Plasma temperature; Quantum cascade lasers; Skin;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-706-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2002.1034140
  • Filename
    1034140