• 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