Laser medicine
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CW rhodamine dye laser emitting near 590 nm, one typically used in early medical laser systems.
Laser radiation being delivered, via a fiber, for photodynamic therapy to treat cancer.
Laser medicine consists in the use of lasers in medical diagnosis, treatments, or therapies, such as laser photodynamic therapy.[1]
Lasers
Lasers used in medicine include as principle any type or laser design, but especially:
- CO2 lasers,[2] used to vaporize tissue
- diode lasers[3]
- dye lasers[1][4]
- excimer lasers
- fiber lasers[5]
- gas lasers
- free electron lasers
- Semiconductor diode lasers
Applications in medicine
Medical areas that employ lasers include:
- angioplasty[4]
- cancer diagnosis[6][7]
- cancer treatment[8]
- cosmetic dermatology such as scar revision, skin resurfacing, laser hair removal, tattoo removal[4]
- dermatology,[4] to treat melanoma
- lithotripsy,[4]
- laser mammography[9]
- medical imaging[9]
- microscopy[10][11]
- ophthalmology (includes Lasik and laser photocoagulation)
- optical coherence tomography[5]
- prostatectomy
- plastic surgery, in laser liposuction[12]
- surgery,[5][13] to ablate and cauterize tissue
See also
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
- Endovenous laser therapy
- Laser-assisted new attachment procedure
- Light therapy
- Low level laser therapy
- Photodynamic therapy
- Photomedicine
References
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