Author: Ishii K, Saiki M, Hazama H, Awazu K.
Affiliation: Medical Beam Phisics Laboratory, Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 565-0871, Japan.
Conference/Journal: Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc.
Date published: 2010
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Volume ID: 1 , Pages: 1614-7 , Word Count: 80
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 selective and less-invasive treatments and the special diagnosis by vibrational spectroscopic information. This paper showed a novel selective therapeutic technique for a laser angioplasty of atherosclerotic plaques and a laser dental surgery of a carious dentin using a MIR tunable nanosecond pulsed laser.