Radiation absorption in different kinds of tissue analysis: ex vivo study with supercontinuum laser source

Carlo Fornaini; Elisabetta Merigo; Stefano Selleri; Annamaria Cucinotta

doi:10.1117/12.2211018

7 March 2016 Radiation absorption in different kinds of tissue analysis: ex vivo study with supercontinuum laser source

Carlo Fornaini, Elisabetta Merigo, Stefano Selleri, Annamaria Cucinotta

Proceedings Volume 9706, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XXVII; 970618 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211018
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

With the introduction of more and more new wavelengths, one of the main problems of medical laser users was centered on the study of laser-tissue interactions with the aim of determining the ideal wavelength for their treatments. The aim of this ex vivo study was to determine, by means of the utilization of a supercontinuum source, the amount of transmitted energy of different wavelengths in different organ samples obtained by Sprague Dawley rats. Supercontinuum light is generated by exploiting high optical non-linearity in a material and it combines the broadband attributes of a lamp with the spatial coherence and high brightness of laser. Even if the single transmission measurement does not allow us to separate out the respective contribution of scattering and absorption, it gives us an evaluation of the wavelengths not interacting with the tissue. In this way, being possible to determine what of the laser wavelengths are not useful or active in the different kinds of tissue, physicians may choose the proper device for his clinical treatments.

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Carlo Fornaini, Elisabetta Merigo, Stefano Selleri, and Annamaria Cucinotta "Radiation absorption in different kinds of tissue analysis: ex vivo study with supercontinuum laser source", Proc. SPIE 9706, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XXVII, 970618 (7 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211018

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