Brooke C. Basinger

TL;DR: Cryogen spray cooling is used to pre‐cool the epidermis during dermatological laser procedures such as treatment of port wine stain birthmarks, hair removal, and non‐ablative photorejuvenation, but clinical observation suggests that human skin indents due to the force of an impinging cryogen spray.

TL;DR: This model provides retinal prosthesis researchers with a tool to optimize the mechanical electrode array design, but the techniques used here represent a unique effort to combine a modifiable device and soft biological tissues in the same model and those techniques could be extended to other devices that come into mechanical contact with soft neural tissues.

TL;DR: The observed increase of cooling rate and efficiency at moderate duty cycle levels supports the above described hypothesis of isolating liquid layer, and demonstrates a novel approach to optimization of cryogen spray devices for individual laser dermatological applications.

TL;DR: The lab has evaluated 3 polymers as retinal prosthesis substrates: polyimide, parylene, and silicone as a critical component of a multi-channel, stimulating electrode array.