DocumentCode
688899
Title
Image‐guided ultrafast laser scalpel for precise and minimally invasive surgery
Author
Ben-Yakar, Adela
Author_Institution
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
fYear
2013
fDate
9-14 June 2013
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
Ultrafast laser microsurgery will be the preferred laser scalpel of surgeons in the future as they enable the most precise cutting tool. Towards enabling its clinical use, we are developing flexible fiber-coupled, MEMS-based microscopes with nonlinear imaging.
Keywords
bioMEMS; biomedical optical imaging; endoscopes; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser applications in medicine; optical microscopy; surgery; cutting tool; flexible fiber-coupled MEMS-based microscopy; image-guided ultrafast laser scalpel; minimally invasive surgery; nonlinear imaging; surgeons; ultrafast laser microsurgery; Laser ablation; Microsurgery; Optical imaging; Probes; Ultrafast optics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Type
conf
Filename
6833276
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