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Method for processing tissue and laser processing device for processing tissue
Anton Kasenbacher
- 19 Aug 2009
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TL;DR: In this article, a laser processing device consisting of a laser beam source (10) for providing a pulsed processing laser beam (50), a laserbeam output coupler unit (70) for output coupling the laser beam in the direction toward an area of tissue to be processed, and an emission device (25) for emitting a photosensitizer in a direction toward a surrounding area of the area of a tissue.
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Abstract: A laser processing device according to the invention comprises a laser beam source (10) for providing a pulsed processing laser beam (50), a laser beam output coupler unit (70) for output coupling the laser beam (50) in the direction toward an area of tissue to be processed, and an emission device (25) for emitting a photosensitizer in the direction toward a surrounding area of the area of the tissue to be processed, wherein the emission device (25) is connected to the output coupler unit (70). A method according to the invention further provides that the laser pulses are emitted at a half-width time in a range from 100 fs to 1 ns.
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