LIBS based Tissue Differentiation for Er:YAG Surgical Laser

Mehari F, Lengenfelder B, Figura R, Klämpfl F, Schmidt M (2018)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2018

Pages Range: 247-251

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology

Event location: Funchal PT

ISBN: 978-989-758-286-8

URI: http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=EZ8vL8gRKLw=&t=1

DOI: 10.5220/0006637402470251

Open Access Link: http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=EZ8vL8gRKLw=&t=1

Abstract

The analytical technique laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is becoming an attractive technique in the field of medicine. One emerging application is the differentiation of biological tissues in real-time during laser surgery. This work attempts to further investigate the use of LIBS together with a surgical Er:YAG laser. The main goal here is to investigate the effect of body fluids as potential contaminants during LIBS based differentiation of soft tissues. Furthermore, the work attempts to exploit the use of the surgical laser as a cleaning laser and compares the effect when only the LIBS laser is used for tissue differentiation. The study shows that body fluids have a significant influence on the LIBS spectra and that a surgical laser might serve as an in-vivo cleaner leading to improved tissue classification during laser surgery.

Authors with CRIS profile

Fanuel Mehari Lehrstuhl für Photonische Technologien (LPT) Benjamin Lengenfelder Lehrstuhl für Photonische Technologien (LPT) Florian Klämpfl Lehrstuhl für Photonische Technologien (LPT) Michael Schmidt Lehrstuhl für Photonische Technologien (LPT)

How to cite

APA:

Mehari, F., Lengenfelder, B., Figura, R., Klämpfl, F., & Schmidt, M. (2018). LIBS based Tissue Differentiation for Er:YAG Surgical Laser. In Scitepress (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology (pp. 247-251). Funchal, PT.

MLA:

Mehari, Fanuel, et al. "LIBS based Tissue Differentiation for Er:YAG Surgical Laser." Proceedings of the Photoptics 2018, Funchal Ed. Scitepress, 2018. 247-251.

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