TY - GEN
T1 - Continuous wave laser angioplasty using ir(CO) or uv(Ar) laser under visualization by a thin endoscope. In vitro and in vivo animal experiments
AU - Arai, Tsunenori
AU - Suda, Akira
AU - Nakagawa, Masato
AU - Kikuchi, Makoto
AU - Mizuno, Kyoichi
AU - Miyamoto, Akira
AU - Sakurada, Masami
AU - Okamoto, Yasuyuki
AU - Satomura, Kimio
AU - Kurita, Akira
AU - Nakamura, Haruo
AU - Utsumi, Atsushi
AU - Akai, Yoshiro
AU - Takeuchi, Kiyoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant DK 08897 and the Cancer League of Colorado.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants DK 37871, GM 30324, CA 58187, GM 15843 to C.A.L.C., DK 08897 to R.R.V., and the American Heart Association. A.M.G. and R.R.V. are fellows of the Cancer League of Colorado.
PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - We studied an use of the continuous wave(cw) lasers (infrared and ultra-violet) to the laser angioplasty by in vitro and an animal experiment in vivo. The use of the cw lasers provides an advantage of the reliable laser energy delivery by a thin flexible fiber. We had already reported the ablation characteristics and the fiber delivery capability of the CO laser. In this paper, we describe another interesting cw laser for the laser angioplasty. The ablation characteristics of the uv Ar laser of which wavelength was approximately 350nm was studied. To develop an operation procedure of the angioscopic laser angioplasty, the animal experiments in vivo have been done under a visualization by a thin laser angioscope catheter with the CO laser irradiation. The advantage of the visualization during the laser angioplastic procedures are discussed.
AB - We studied an use of the continuous wave(cw) lasers (infrared and ultra-violet) to the laser angioplasty by in vitro and an animal experiment in vivo. The use of the cw lasers provides an advantage of the reliable laser energy delivery by a thin flexible fiber. We had already reported the ablation characteristics and the fiber delivery capability of the CO laser. In this paper, we describe another interesting cw laser for the laser angioplasty. The ablation characteristics of the uv Ar laser of which wavelength was approximately 350nm was studied. To develop an operation procedure of the angioscopic laser angioplasty, the animal experiments in vivo have been done under a visualization by a thin laser angioscope catheter with the CO laser irradiation. The advantage of the visualization during the laser angioplastic procedures are discussed.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0025545276
SN - 0819402427
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
SP - 54
EP - 62
BT - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
A2 - Katzir, Abraham
PB - Publ by Int Soc for Optical Engineering
T2 - Proceedings of Optical Fibers in Medicine V
Y2 - 14 January 1990 through 19 January 1990
ER -