Title :
Novel laser therapy and diagnosis using mid-infrared laser
Author :
Awazu, Kunio ; Ishii, Katsunori ; Hazama, Hisanao
Author_Institution :
Div. of Sustainable Energy & Environ. Eng., Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan
Abstract :
Mid-infrared (MIR) laser with a specific wavelength can excite the corresponding biomolecular site to regulate chemical, thermal and mechanical interactions to biological molecules and tissues. In laser surgery and medicine, tunable MIR laser irradiation can realize the safety regulation of therapeutic effect, less-invasive treatments and the special diagnosis by vibrational spectroscopic information. This paper showed a novel therapeutic and diagnostic applications using tunable MIR laser.
Keywords :
biological tissues; laser applications in medicine; laser tuning; molecular biophysics; patient diagnosis; photodynamic therapy; surgery; biological molecules; biomolecular site excitation; chemical regulation; laser therapy; less-invasive treatments; mechanical interactions; mid-infrared laser diagnosis; therapeutic safety regulation; thermal interactions; tissues; tunable MIR laser surgery; vibrational spectroscopic information; Angioplasty; Animals; Atherosclerosis; Biomedical Engineering; Cholesterol Esters; Disease Models, Animal; Equipment Design; Laser Therapy; Lasers; Optics and Photonics; Rabbits; Spectrophotometry; Spectrophotometry, Infrared; Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; Vibration;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3296-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332390
